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#1. Don't follow those who can talk a big game about their amazing faith in Christ. Follow people who are actually following Christ.

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#2. We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.

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#3. God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

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#4. Just as heaven and earth were created to be together - and, indeed, that's how the whole story of the Bible ends - so marriage is to be a symbol of this divine design: two differentiated entities uniquely fitted for one another.7

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#5. Every true Christian should feel deep in his bones an utter dependence on God's self-revelation in the Scriptures. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord (Deut. 8:3; Matt. 4:4).

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#6. Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

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#7. Christ justifies no one whom he does not also sanctify.

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#8. Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

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#9. The person who never sets priorities is the person who does not believe in his own finitude.

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#10. Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place.

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#11. The Bible can no more fail, falter, or err, than God himself can fail, falter, or err.

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#12. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

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#13. When we are crazy busy, we put our souls at risk. The challenge is not merely to make a few bad habits go away. The challenge is to not let our spiritual lives slip away.

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#14. To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

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#15. God gets glory when his strength shines in our weakness.

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#16. The Heidelberg Catechism is like a refreshing bath with cool gospel water.

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#17. My fear is that as we rightly celebrate, and in some quarters rediscover, all that Christ has saved us from, we are giving little thought and making little effort concerning all that Christ has saved us to.

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#18. The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.

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#19. Marriage, by its very nature, requires complementarity. The mystical union of Christ and the church - each "part" belonging to the other but neither interchangeable - cannot be pictured in marital union without the differentiation of male and female.

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#20. If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

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#21. Even though this seems rather plain, we Christians can easily become confused about what sanctification is. Instead of emphasizing its connection to the Lord and his Word, we can make it merely about certain external behaviors and mind-sets, select methods and practices.

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#22. God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do that, I'm being unfaithful and sinful.

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#23. You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

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#24. Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

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#25. God's way is not to show us what tomorrow looks like or even to tell us what decisions we should make tomorrow. That's not His way because that's not the way of faith. God's way is to tell us that He knows tomorrow, He cares for us, and therefore, we should not worry. Verse

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#26. Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.

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#27. Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

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#28. Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

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#29. We don't get to pick the age we will live in, and we don't get to choose all the struggles we will face. Faithfulness is ours to choose; the shape of faithfulness is God to determine.

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#30. For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.

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#31. Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something of their load and it's weighing you down a little bit.

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#32. As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.

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#33. My life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry.

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#34. The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude, and trust in the providence of God.

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#35. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

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#36. They took a bite from the forbidden fruit, and the fruit bit back.

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#37. Margin," Swenson says, "is the space between our load and our limits.

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#38. Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.

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#39. When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions over many centuries. We also help them realize that other Christians have asked the same questions.

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#40. It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.

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#41. We won't say no to more craziness until we can say yes to more Jesus. We will keep choosing dinner rolls over the bread of life. We will choose the fanfare of the world over the feet of Jesus. We will choose busyness over blessing.

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#42. Fellowship with Christ does not exist apart from fealty to Christ.

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#43. So much of our busyness comes down to meeting people's expectations.

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#44. If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will.

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#45. We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

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#46. One of the most resilient and cherished myths of parenting is that parenting creates the child.

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#47. Being a child of God means confidence, but it never means complacency.

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#48. I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

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#49. We wake up most days not trying to serve, just trying to survive.

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#50. My temptation is to tackle everything at once, or nothing at all.

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#51. No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

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#52. Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

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#53. The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

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#54. Any gospel which purports to save people without also transforming them is inviting easy-believism. If you think being a Christian is nothing more than saying a prayer or joining a church, then you've confused real grace with cheap grace. Those who are justified will be sanctified.

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#55. The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

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#56. We think relevance and relate-ability are the secrets to spiritual success. And yet, in truth, a dying world needs you to be with God more than it needs you to be with it.

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#57. God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

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#58. Christlikeness is possible, but not by merely working with Jesus or simply imitating his example. Only by knowing our position in Jesus can we begin to live like Jesus.

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#59. As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

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#60. Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It's about effectively serving others in the ways I'm best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve.

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#61. To paraphrase Titus 3:3, we live as slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in chaos and envy, hassled by others and hassling one another. We are all very busy, but not with what matters

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#62. Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

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#63. We're not consistent. We're not stable. We don't stick with anything. Most of the time we can't even make decisions.

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#64. Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

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#65. The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

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#66. Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else. And like everyone else, your joy, your heart and your soul are in danger.

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#67. Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

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#68. Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

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#69. The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

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#70. Wristband). The gospel is not a message about what we need to do for God, but about what God has done for us. So get them with the good news about who God is and what he has done for us.

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#71. Am I trying to do good or to make myself look good?

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#72. When you share the gospel, you're not calling people to a better way of life, you're proclaiming to them eternal life.

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#73. But we all live somewhere and must swim in the water around us. I can't help but deal with the realities of life as I experience them in the United States.

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#74. When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.

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#75. The irony is that if we make every imperative into a command to believe the gospel more fully, we turn the gospel into one more thing we have to get right, and faith becomes the one thing we need to be better at.

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#76. It would be bad enough if we were just restless, meandering through life, and a little cowardly. But we've spiritualized restless and meandering cowardice, making it feel like piety instead of passivity.

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#77. When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

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#78. If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.

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#79. We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be

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#80. I tell my congregation at times, "You don't have to feel conviction for every sermon. Some of you are actually obedient and faithful in this area." Not perfectly, of course, but truly and sincerely.

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#81. The world stands for everything that opposes the will of God.

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#82. There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

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#83. As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

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#84. Busyness is like sin: kill it, or it will be killing you.

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#85. No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

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#86. All our sins are offensive to God and require forgiveness. But over and over the Bible teaches that some sins are worse than others.

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#87. Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.

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#88. I read an anecdote once about a woman from another culture who came to the United States and began to introduce herself as "Busy." It was, after all, the first thing she heard when meeting any American. Hello, I'm Busy - she figured it was part of our traditional greeting,

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#89. Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.

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#90. When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

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#91. reconciliation is radical because it is biblical.

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#92. Fourth, Jesus himself reinforces the normativity of the Genesis account.

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#93. You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

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#94. Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

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#95. No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

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#96. Christianity is so much more than getting your doctrine right, but it is not less.

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#97. No matter how goofy or insignificant your church may seem, fellowship in that body of believers is fellowship with God.

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#98. You can borrow time, but you can't steal it.

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#99. Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God either, and it is an easily observable fact that for countless numbers of persons the change from no-faith to faith makes no actual difference in the life.

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#100. The whole of the Christian life, from election to justification to sanctification to final glorification, is made possible by and is an expression of our union with Christ.

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