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We Can Say That True Gratitude Does Not Give Rise To The Debtor's Ethic Because It Gives Rise To Faith In Future Grace. With True Gratitude There Is Such A Delight In The Worth Of God's Past Grace, That We Are Driven On To Experience More And More Of It In The Future...it Is Done By Transforming Gratitude Into Faith As It Turns From Contemplating The Pleasures Of Past Grace And Starts Contemplating The Promises Of The Future.

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We Can Say That True Gratitude Does Not Give Rise To The Debtor's Ethic Because It Gives Rise To Faith In Future Grace. With True Gratitude There Is Such A Delight In The Worth Of God's Past Grace, That We Are Driven On To Experience More And More Of It In The Future...it Is Done By Transforming Gratitude Into Faith As It Turns From Contemplating The Pleasures Of Past Grace And Starts Contemplating The Promises Of The Future.

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God In Eternity Looked Upon Me Forseeing My Faultness, My Pride, My Sin And Said 'i Want That Man In My Family, I Will Pay For Him To Be In My Family With My Son's Life. That's Love Folks. That Is Mega Off The Charts Love!!!

He Has Made Me Wary Of Chronological Snobbery. That Is, He Showed Me That Newness Is No Virtue And Oldness Is No Vice. Truth And Beauty And Goodness Are Not Determined By When They Exist. Nothing Is Inferior For Being Old, And Nothing Is Valuable For Being Modern. This Has Freed Me From The Tyranny Of Novelty And Opened For Me The Wisdom Of The Ages.

Christians Belive In A Sovereign God Who Never Says "oops". We Believe That All Our Days ... Are Divine Strokes On The Canvas Of Our Lives By The Master Artist Who Certified His Skill, His Power, And His Love In The Masterpiece Of Calvary. If You Doubt His Skill In Painting Your Life - Look At The Calvary

The Immensity Of His Worth Is Reflected In The Intensity Of Your Worship.

The Most Dangerous Thing In The World Is The Sin Of Self-reliance And The Stupor Of Worldliness.

Do You Feel More Loved When God Makes Much Of You Or Do You Feel More Loved When God At The Cost Of His Son Allows You To Make Much Of Him?

People Are Not Prepared Or Able To Rejoice In Suffering Unless They Experience A Massive Biblical Revolution Of How They Think And Feel About The Meaning Of Life. Human Nature And American Culture Make It Impossible To Rejoice In Suffering. This Is A Miracle In The Human Soul Wrought By God Through His Word.

The Greatest Cause In The World Is Joyfully Rescuing People From Hell, Meeting Their Earthly Needs, Making Them Glad In God, And Doing It With A Kind, Serious Pleasure That Makes Christ Look Like The Treasure He Is.

God Is Always Doing 10,000 Things In Your Life, And You May Be Aware Of Three Of Them.

Marriage. The Roots Are Deep. The Covenant Is Solid. The Love Is Sweet. Life Is Hard. And God Is Good.

If You Don't Feel Strong Desires For The Manifestation Of The Glory Of God, It Is Not Because You Have Drunk Deeply And Are Satisfied. It Is Because You Have Nibbled So Long At The Table Of The World. Your Soul Is Stuffed With Small Things, And There Is No Room For The Great.

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.

Paradise Will Not Be A Hall Of Mirrors, It Will Be A Display Of Majesty, And It Won't Be Ours

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.

He Shook My Dozing Soul And Threw The Cold Water Of Reality In My Face, So That Life And God And Heaven And Hell Broke Into My World With Glory And Horror. (on Cs Lewis)

The Gospel Is The Good News That The Everlasting And Ever-increasing Joy Of The Never-boring, Ever-satisfying Christ Is Ours Freely And Eternally By Faith In The Sin-forgiving Death And Hope-giving Resurrection Of Jesus Christ.

Suffering In The Path Of Christian Obedience, With Joy - Because The Steadfast Love Of The Lord Is Better Than Life (psalm 63:3) - Is The Clearest Display Of The Worth Of God In Our Lives. Therefore, Faith-filled Suffering Is Essential In This World For The Most Intense, Authentic Worship. When We Are Most Satisfied With God In Suffering, He Will Be Most Glorified In Us In Worship. Our Problem Is Not Styles Of Music. Our Problem Is Styles Of Life. When We Embrace More Affliction For The Worth Of Christ, There Will Be More Fruit In The Worship Of Christ.

The Bible Is The Ultimate Authority And Infallible, Not The Pastor And Not The Elders. And It Doesn't Mean That You Believe Everything He Says Without Examining It.

God Will Not Turn Away From Doing You Good. He Will Keep On Doing Good. He Doesn't Do Good To His Children Sometimes And Bad To Them Other Times. He Keeps On Doing Good And He Never Will Stop Doing Good For Ten Thousand Ages Of Ages. When Things Are Going Bad That Does Not Mean God Has Stopped Doing Good. It Means He Is Shifting Things Around To Get Them In Place For More Good, If You Will Go On Loving Him.

Faith Is Born And Sustained By The Word Of God, And Out Of Faith Grows The Flower Of Joy.

Pastors And Missionaries (need) To Know God And To Find In Him A Treasure More Satisfying Than Any Other Person Or Thing Or Relationship Or Experience Or Accomplishment In The World.

Spiritual Leadership Is Knowing Where God Wants People To Be And Taking The Initiative To Get Them There By God's Means In Reliance On God's Power.

The More Of God's Word You Know And Love, The More Of God's Spirit You Will Experience.

There Is A War Going On. All Talk Of A Christian's Right To Live Luxuriously "as A Child Of The King" In This Atmosphere Sounds Hollow - Especially Since The King Himself Is Stripped For Battle.

Where Feelings For God Are Dead, Worship Is Dead.

One Day America And All Its Presidents Will Be A Footnote In History, But The Kingdom Of Jesus Will Never End.

The Dismembering Of A Human Being Routinely In 30 Minutes On An Outpatient Bases - Or Any Other Way - Is Barbaric. Four Blocks From Our Church All Year Long - Like Churches Within Smelling Distance Of Auschwitz Or Dachau Or Buchenwald.

The Ultimate Difference Between God's Wisdom And Man's Wisdom Is How They Relate To The Glory Of God's Grace In Christ Crucified. God's Wisdom Makes The Glory Of God's Grace Our Supreme Treasure. But Man's Wisdom Delights In Seeing Himself As Resourceful, Self-sufficient, Self Determining, And Not Utterly Dependent On God's Free Grace.

"how Are You Doing?" - - - Better Than I Deserve.

So Saving Grace, Converting Grace, For Augustine, Is God's Giving Us A Sovereign Joy In God That Triumphs Over All Other Joys And Therefore Sways The Will. The Will Is Free To Move Toward Whatever It Delights In Most Fully, But It Is Not Within The Power Of Our Will To Determine What That Sovereign Joy Will Be.

Ignatius, When He Heard The Clock Strike, Would Say, "now I Have Another Hour To Answer For." (eph. 5:16)

I've Never Heard Anyone Say The Really Deep Lessons Of Life Have Come In Times Of Ease And Comfort. But, I Have Heard Many Saints Say Every Significant Advance I've Ever Made In Grasping In The Depth Of God's Love And Growing Deep With Him, Have Come Through Suffering.

It Is Not Surprising That Prayer Malfunctions When We Try To Make It A Domestic Intercom To Call Upstairs For More Comforts In The Den.

Jesus' Teaching In General [implies] That Happy And Fulfilling Sexual Relations In Marriage Depend On Each Partner Aiming To Give Satisfaction To The Other. If It Is The Joy Of Each To Make The Other Happy, A Hundred Problems Will Be Solved Before They Happen.

The Vast Majority Of Abortions Are Performed Between The Seventh And Tenth Week When The Baby Is Already Sucking His Thumb, Recoiling From Pricking, Responding To Sound. All His Organs Are Present, The Brain Is Functioning, The Heart Is Pumping, The Liver Is Making Blood Cells, The Kidneys Are Cleaning Fluids, And There Is A Fingerprint. His Genetic Code Is Uniquely And Unquestionably Human. And, If We Are Willing, He Can Be Seen By Ultrasound.

If Truth Does Not Lead To Falling In Love, It Fails.

Falling In Love

Husbands And Wives, Recognize That In Marriage You Have Become One Flesh. If You Live For Your Private Pleasure At The Expense Of Your Spouse, You Are Living Against Yourself And Destroying Your Joy. But If You Devote Yourself With All Your Heart To The Holy Joy Of Your Spouse, You Will Also Be Living For Your Joy And Making A Marriage After The Image Of Christ And His Church.

To Love God Passionately Is To Love Truth Passionately.

There Are Only Three Kinds Of Christians When It Comes To World Missions: Zealous Goers, Zealous Senders, And Disobedient.

Loving God With All Our Mind Means That Our Thinking Is Wholly Engaged To Do All It Can To Awaken And Express The Heartfelt Fullness Of Treasuring God Above All Things.

Grace Is Power, Not Just Pardon.

It Has To Do With Seeing God. “blessed Are The Pure In Heart, For They Shall See God” (matthew 5:8).

God Made Us In His Own Image So That His Image Would Be Shown.

We Are More Than A Collection Of Appetites - We Are Of God.

Faith Stands Or Falls On The Truth That The Future With God Is More Satisfying Than The One Promised By Sin. Where This Truth Is Embraced And God Is Cherished Above All, The Power Of Sin Is Broken. The Power Of Sin Is The Power Of Deceit. Sin Has Power Through Promising A False Future. In Temptation Sin Comes To Us And Says: "the Future With God On His Narrow Way Is Hard And Unhappy, But The Way I Promise Is Pleasant And Satisfying." The Power Of Sin Is In The Power Of This Lie.

Blind People Don't Decide To See. Jesus Says, 'see!' And They See.

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