This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.
The further you go, the more you're going to need the people you started with.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on
Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations....
My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.
God's way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God's ways.
You can either be god of certain areas of your life, or let Me be God of your whole life.
Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.
At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.
Jesus has to become real to us. We need to court him and get to know him better. Go on some dates with the Lord.
Pain is holy ground in a person's life.
Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.
Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with...
God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the da...
The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.
The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.
Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call...
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