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" As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed. "
Tony Evans
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" When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation. "
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" When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline. "
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" I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy. "
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" Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced. "
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" If you're not married, and your boyfriend is putting his hands on you, you know he ain't the one, because you know that will continue. "
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" There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him. "
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" 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. "
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" Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own rules, then they become against the creator and what He intended for government to do. "
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" Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life. "
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" Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians. "
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" The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time. "
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" Football is oneness in action. When played well, it is unity on display. Players come from different races and different backgrounds. However, when they get on the field, they harmonize their differences toward a common goal. "
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" 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. "
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" Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core. "
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" Anyone who knows me knows that I love football. "
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" 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. "
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" Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people. "
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" 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. "
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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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" What God wants is for us to live by His rules, resulting in the receiving of His blessing and power. When we as Christians, celebrating our differences, join together as the house of God representing the kingdom of God for the glory of God, we get the response of God to our presence in history. "
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