Gloria Furman Quotes

#1. We need to remember that God is no less good to us when we find ourselves in a battle of wills with a preschooler in the checkout line at the grocery store than he was as his Son dragged a cross up a hill that Friday two thousand years ago.

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#2. I need God's grace and something baked with peanut butter and chocolate.

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#3. We learned that the body of Christ grows by the Word of Christ, flexing its muscles to serve, stretching out its hands to heal, and dreaming up creative ways to bless one another using the gifts God has given.

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#4. When we acknowledge our inability to mother our children apart from the Lord's provision and strength, we honor God. Of course we are not able to do this work of raising children and training them in the instruction of the Lord. That's why we desperately need the Lord!

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#5. Because God is good, we have an infinite number of reasons to praise him in our homes.

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#6. What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances.

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#7. When I take hold of Jesus by faith as my only hope to please God, God declares that I am justified. Christ's righteousness becomes mine. That's grace.

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#8. Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

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#9. God is a good Father, and he never, ever considers for even one moment letting us remain satisfied with anything less than himself, because he is the most satisfying treasure in the whole wide world.

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#10. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.

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#11. We do not put away our idols so that God will then accept us, but we put away our idols because God has accepted us in Christ

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#12. Diaper that leaks onto the floorboard of my car while I'm stuck in

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#13. Eve means "giver of life." I don't think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life.

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#14. The gospel keeps me relating to God on the basis of Jesus's perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements.

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#15. But seeking the temporary reward of the world's approval can distract us from seeking the eternal reward of the Lord's approval.

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#16. Only the redeeming, all-powerful, transforming grace of God can raise our sin-besotted heart from the dead, give us eternal life, and set our gaze on Jesus, our blessed hope.

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#17. The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity.

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#18. What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus's death on the cross was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

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#19. This is because the greatest problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her (John 13:34).

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#20. So how do we know if we've assumed the gospel? Mack Stiles days so aptly that the way to know if we've assumed the gospel is this: you don't hear it anymore. Everyone talks to themselves.

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#21. Problem. My biggest problem is that I live under the illusion that I can do anything I put my mind to while I give lip service to needing God's wisdom. I

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#22. The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ.

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#23. The Holy Spirit will not allow you to live satisfied on the rubbish heap; he will nurture a longing for the City of God to beat in your heart.

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#24. When the mundane looms larger than eternal life, we forget who God is, who we are, and who our children are.

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#25. The greatest obstruction to our joy in God is not a lack of time.

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#26. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.

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#27. The gospel is the one great permanent circumstance in which I live and move; and every hardship in my life is allowed by God only because it serves His gospel purposes in me.

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#28. God can use the ordinary moments in your life to glorify himself by conforming you into the image of his Son. That is precisely what he intends to do.

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#29. For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.

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#30. Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.

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#31. If we aren't clear on what the Christian gospel is, then what is at stake is not merely a harmless misunderstanding but eternal life and death.

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#32. A motley crew of racist, sin-sick, spiritual zombies is now one body under Christ. And individually they are new creations walking in humility, gentleness, and patience

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#33. Puritan Thomas Watson said, "Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." I think Scottish minister Thomas Chalmers, who preached on "the expulsive power of a new affection," would have added: Until Christ be sweet, sin will not be bitter.

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#34. Our ministries exist not simply for the purpose of helping people live well now; our ministries, like our whole lives, must aim for the end, when we'll see Jesus face-to-face. The

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#35. Preaching the gospel to myself each day is the best way to remind myself that my life in Christ is the prevailing, permanent reality in my life.

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#36. We ought to consider our home managing as the creation of a living organism that nurtures the peace of Christ and the righteousness of God.

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#37. God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

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#38. If we want to give grace to our children, then first we must be willing to receive it ourselves from God.

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#39. The great problem a mother has is not a lack of creativity, accomplishment, or skill, but her inability to love God and others as Jesus loves her.

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#40. When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.

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#41. No mother's nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through.

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#42. God's irresistible grace binds our wandering hearts to himself and frees us to love him back and overflow in love to our neighbors.

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#43. It is quite easy to allow the gospel to become overshadowed by our own efforts to grow spiritually. Spiritual disciplines serve as gateways to cherishing the gospel, not as substitutes for the gospel.

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#44. It is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies

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#45. Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

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#46. Just the other day I witnessed a disagreement between a waiter and a customer over whether the coffee he served her was a cappuccino or a latte.

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#47. Because of the gospel
the news about what Jesus did on the cross to save sinners
mothers who make Christ their treasure can rejoice in their work as God works in them.

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#48. All around the world, God is giving and sustaining life to the praise of his grace. His mercy is new every morning, and it's always morning somewhere.

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#49. Gifts are given by God and empowered by God to glorify God.

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#50. At the end of every day - chaotic and mundane alike - motherhood is about the adoration and enjoyment of our great God. The

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#51. For some people the remark, "You're just like your mother [or father]," is enough to pick a fight. For a Christian, the greatest testimony of God's grace in our lives is the observation, "You're just like your Father.

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#52. The course of this world is pervasive, keeping the captives quiet with the morphine of temporary pleasure at the expense of their eternal souls.

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#53. We need faith to trust that God doesn't merely "know what's best for us," but that he is what's best for us no matter what our circumstances are.

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