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#1. If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn't matter what else we get right.

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#2. God could have created us without loving us, but He would not have gone to the Cross without loving us.

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#3. Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley.
Ollie Chandler in Deception

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#4. Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.

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#5. We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.

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#6. Heaven isn't an extrapolation of earthly thinking; Earth is an extension of Heaven, made by the Creator King.

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#7. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity

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#8. For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

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#9. When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.

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#10. What we do with a little time, a little talent, and a little money tells God a lot.

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#11. How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

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#12. The average American shops six hours a week while spending forty minutes playing with his children.

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#13. We cannot expect God to bless and honor our efforts to help the needy if part of our "help" includes distributing chemicals and devices that may kill children who belong not to us, but to them, and above all to God.

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#14. Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

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#15. Giving sacrificially also means giving the best. If we have two blankets and someone needs one of them, sacrificial giving hands over the better of the two. Sadly, much of our "giving" is merely discarding. Donating secondhand goods to church rummage sales

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#16. The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell. - J. C. Ryle

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#17. The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign God. - Margaret Clarkson

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#18. Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

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#19. It's possible for someone to act sacrificially and selflessly in the best interests of others while enjoying the fruit: feeling good about having done well and receiving God's approval and reward.

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#20. She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.

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#21. Since in Heaven we'll finally experience life at its best, it would be more accurate to call our present existence the beforelife rather than to call what follows the afterlife.

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#22. If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures
now that would have gotten his attention.

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#23. Charles Spurgeon's answer was to recognize that whatever God's Word teaches is true, whether or not it all makes sense to us. He said, I

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#24. There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

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#25. When God provides more money we often think, This is a blessing. Yes, but it would be just as scriptural to say, "This is a test." Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live.

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#26. No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

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#27. Being happy in God and living righteously tastes far better for far longer than sin does. When my hunger and thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. I say no to immorality not because I hate pleasure but because I want the enduring pleasure found in Christ.

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#28. Each day every man comes closer to the day of his death. Those who lay up their treasures in Thuros spend each day moving away from them. Those who lay up their treasures in Charis spend each day moving toward them.

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#29. Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

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#30. Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.

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#31. When you once had faith and no longer do, I suppose it's like a woman carrying a dead baby. The sight of live babies becomes painful.

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#32. As you go through life, don't let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of God's words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.

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#33. Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.

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#34. God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won't let you outgive Him.

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#35. Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

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#36. Never believe a man who says God no longer does miracles, Ben. But never believe a man who says God must do a miracle the way a man wants him to. God is God.

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#37. My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

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#38. A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

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#39. Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

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#40. What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer - they are previews of the greater life to come.

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#41. Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.

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#42. But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.

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#43. The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)

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#44. The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

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#45. We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

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#46. Father to teenage son: My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.

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#47. Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.

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#48. Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

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#49. Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)

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#50. The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

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#51. We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

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#52. The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! People should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight. A. W. TOZER

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#53. We should thank God for every stream of joy in our lives while recognizing that Christ is the ocean from which every stream flows.

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#54. Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

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#55. To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

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#56. Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]

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#57. Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is his life meaningful? How about the elderly? If those who cannot think do not deserve to live, what about those who think the wrong way?

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#58. It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

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#59. I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

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#60. God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

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#61. You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.

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#62. Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

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#63. Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

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#64. Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.

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#65. Tozer wrote, When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians, and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world.

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#66. Are you winning the battle against materialism?

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#67. Augustine insisted that this longing is as true for Christ-followers as it is for anyone else: "If I should ask you why you believe in Christ, and why you have become Christians, every man will answer truthfully by saying: for the sake of a happy life.

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#68. Looking back," Ruby said, "I wonder why I was so afraid to grow old. Every day brought me one day closer to being here with You.

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#69. Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

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#70. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign

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#71. Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

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#72. We don't like to think about death; yet, worldwide, 3 people die every second, 180 every minute, and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250,000 people every day go either to Heaven or Hell.9 David said, "Show me, O Lord, my

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#73. God loves a great story, and all of us who know Him will recall and celebrate and continue to live in that story for all eternity.

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#74. Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.

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#75. To be truly happy - a man must have sources of gladness which are not dependent on anything in this world. - J. C. Ryle

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#76. God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

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#77. I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

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#78. I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

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#79. Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.

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#80. Life on earth matters not because it's the only life we have, but precisely because it isn't - it's the beginning of a life that will continue without end.

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#81. Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

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#82. I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back - but God has a bigger shovel. - R. G. LeTourneau

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#83. Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

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#84. God will not be a half husband. He will not be comforted by the fact that we call him "Savior" when we refuse to follow him as Lord.

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#85. We are [God's] by creation, and again by redemption. He has every right to tell me what to do with my mind and body. I have. I right to do whatever I want with my body.

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#86. Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

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#87. Wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

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#88. God is the Audience of One. There are no secrets from Him.

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#89. God created us to love people and use things, but materialists love things and use people.

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#90. It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

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#91. Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

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#92. Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

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#93. C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.

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#94. The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema

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#95. Something nonhuman doesn't become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

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#96. We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." - Burk Parsons

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#97. It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.

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#98. Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.

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#99. As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent.

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#100. To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.

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