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Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

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The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

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The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.

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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?

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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

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When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

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No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.

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God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

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The Bible isn't about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

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The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.

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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

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The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

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Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

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Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

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Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

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The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

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The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

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Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

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Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

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Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.

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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

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The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

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