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Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God (2008)
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.
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Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.
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If God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
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I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.
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We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a 'great cloud of witnesses,' the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
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When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.
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We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.
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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.
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You and I are not allowed to tell Him how much He can hate it (sin).
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"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
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Our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.
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We'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.
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To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.
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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
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It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.
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From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
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I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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August 31, 1967
(age 56)
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