"Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices."
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"The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past."
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"A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments."
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"Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely."
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"But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God."
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"Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable."
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"The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff."
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"Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it."
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"To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ."
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"Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor."
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"Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness."
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"Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things."
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"In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ."
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"While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage."
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"Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things"
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"Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him."
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"Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus."
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"How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be."
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"The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability."
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"The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom."
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