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The Engagement Of The Heart In Worship Is The Coming Alive Of The Feelings And Emotions And Affections Of The Heart. Where Feelings For God Are Dead, Worship Is Dead.

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The Engagement Of The Heart In Worship Is The Coming Alive Of The Feelings And Emotions And Affections Of The Heart. Where Feelings For God Are Dead, Worship Is Dead.

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God Is Not A Killjoy; He Just Opposes What Kills Joy.

My Mother, Who Grew Up In Pennsylvania, Literally Washed My Mouth Out With Soap Once For Saying, 'shut Up!' To My Sister. She Would Have Washed My Mouth Out With Gasoline If She Knew How Foul My Mouth Was Racially When She Wasn't Around.

The Infinite Reservoir Of Future Grace Is Flowing Back Through The Present Into The Ever-growing Pool Of Past Grace. The Inexhaustible Reservoir Is Invisible Except Through The Promises. But The Ever-enlarging Pool Of Past Grace Is Visible; And God Means For The Certainty And Beauty And Depth To Strengthen Our Faith In Future Grace.

Prosperity Cannot Be A Proof Of God's Favor, Since It Is What The Devil Promises To Those Who Worship Him. (matt. 4:9)

If We Love God's Fame And Are Committed To Magnifying His Name Above All Things, We Cannot Be Indifferent To World Missions.

This Is The Centre Of The Gospel - This Is What The Garden Of Gethsemane And Good Friday Are All About - That God Has Done Astonishing And Costly Things To Draw Us Near.

Forgiveness Costs Us Nothing. All Our Costly Obedience Is The Fruit, Not The Root, Of Being Forgiven. That's Why We Call It Grace.

Spot The First Risings Of Your Besetting Sin And Kill It, Till It Is No More.

What Is The Essence Of Evil? It Is Forsaking A Living Fountain For Broken Cisterns. God Gets Derision And We Get Death. They Are One: Choosing Sugarcoated Misery We Mock The Lifegiving God. It Was Meant To Be Another Way: God's Glory Exalted In Our Everlasting Joy.

It Is Better To Lose Your Life Than To Waste It.

God Created Us With Sexual Passion So That There Would Be Language To Describe What It Means To Cleave To Him In Love And What It Means To Turn Away From Him To Others.

The Whole World Lives For Pleasure. The Only Difference Is Theirs Is Fleeting, While Ours Is Forever In Jesus.

In Colossians 2:12 And 1 Peter 3:21 Baptism Is An Expression Of The Faith Of The Person Being Baptized. I [do] Not See How An Infant Could Properly Receive This Ordinance As An Expression Of His Or Her Faith.

The Bible Does Not Oppose Or Forbid Interracial Marriages But Sees Them As A Positive Good For The Glory Of Christ.

Every Sin Flows From The Failure To Treasure The Glory Of God Above All Things.

When The Heart No Longer Feels The Truth Of Hell, The Gospel Passes From Good News To Simply News

When I Pray For Revival I Pray First For The Most Radical Thing: The Utter Devotion And Allegiance Of Your Hearts To Christ. That You Would Love Him So Deeply And Long For Him So Passionately That His Coming Would Be Your Great Hope, And Death Would Be Gain, And Life Would Be For Christ And His Kingdom.

The Gospel Is Not A Picture Of Adoption, Adoption Is A Picture Of The Gospel.

Woe To Us If We Get Our Satisfaction From The Food In The Kitchen And The Tv In The Den And The Sex In The Bedroom With An Occasional Tribute To The Cement Blocks In The Basement!

Here Is A Vocation That Will Bring You More Satisfaction Than If You Became A Millionaire Ten Times Over: Develop The Extraordinary Skill For Detecting The Burdens Of Others And Devote Yourself Daily To Making Them Lighter.

In Our Proud Love Affair With Ourselves We Pour Contempt, Whether We Know It Or Not, On The Worth Of God's Glory. As Our Pride Pours Contempt Upon God's Glory, His Righteousness Obliges Him To Pour Wrath Upon Our Pride.

No One Will Be Able To Rise To The Magnificence Of The Missionary Cause Who Does Not Feel The Magnificence Of Christ.

At The Heart Of Mature Masculinity Is A Sense Of Benevolent Responsibility To Lead, Provide For, And Protect Women In Ways Appropriate To Man's Differing Relationships.

Oh That God Would Help Me Waken In You A Single Passion For A Single Great Reality That Would Unleash You, And Set You Free From Small Dreams, And Send You, For The Glory Of Christ, Into All The Spheres Of Secular Life And To All The Peoples Of The Earth.

Nothing Is More Vital Than Prayer In Christian Existence, And Few Things Are More Vulnerable To Neglect.

Humility Is Beyond Our Reach. If It Were A Product Of Reaching, We Would Instinctively Be Proud Of Reaching It. It Is A Gift.

Do You Feel Loved By God Because You Believe He Makes Much Of You, Or Because You Believe He Frees You And Empowers You To Enjoy Making Much Of Him?

How Do You Get From, "we Do Not Know Whether This Is Protectable Human Life," To "therefore, We Will Not Protect It?" Wouldn't The Logic Just As Likely (some Would Say Far More Likely) Be, "since We Do Not Know Whether This Is Protectable Human Life, Therefore We Will Protect It?" Why Does The Judicial Uncertainty About The Humanity Of The Unborn Lead To Unbridled License To Destroy It?

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