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" Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it. "

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" Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting. "

" If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference. "

" The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject. "

" When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline. "

" Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation. "

" To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification. "

" The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil. "

" Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right. "

" If the church adopts a school, and the school has kids, and the kids have parents, well, then you've reconnected the hub of a community, because you've brought together its three most fundamental institutions - church, schools, and family. "

" Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected. "

" The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible, the more chaotic things become. "

" If you or the devil or anyone else could remove you from Christ's hand, then that entity would be greater than Christ, and the eternal life He gave you would not be eternal at all. That's an impossible equation. "

" I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus. "

" We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society. "

" Our God is a great coach, and he's got a great playbook. "

" God has a kingdom. It's made up of citizens: some black, some white, some red, yellow, Spanish backgrounds. His intention was never that the individual uniqueness would cause them to lose sight of the flag flying over them - the flag of the cross. "

" Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something. "

" In order to impact our society, we need to first model unity in the church. "

" When I heard Martin Luther King's speech, 'I Have a Dream,' I reflected on the fact that much of the success of that movement was driven by the unity of the church. "

" As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed. "

" Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry. "

" Slavery was ungodly, unrighteous, and unbiblical. "

" In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services. "

" I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. "

" God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you. "

" You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't want to lose either audience. "

" God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority. "

" It is in following Christ as our captain that we can win in our personal lives, families, churches, and communities. "

" The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future. "

" The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused. "