"All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil."
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"Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'"
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"The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us."
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"Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly."
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"In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring."
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"The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life."
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"If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us."
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"Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people"
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"To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God."
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"When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence."
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"The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life."
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"Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God ."
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"By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived."
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"Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love."
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"The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true."
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"You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule."
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"It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between."
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"Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth."
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"We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture."
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"If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King."
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