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" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "
John Piper
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" As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning. "
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" Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. "
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" One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. "
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" Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed. "
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" My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around. "
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" The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty. "
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" Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve. "
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Women
" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt. "
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Suffering
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" The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. "
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Essence
Us
God
" The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it. "
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Bible
Believe
Authority
" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "
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Path
Love
Humble
" The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. "
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Dangerous
World
Sin
" Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. "
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He
" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. "
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Gospel
Owe
" I just want to preach so bad I can hardly stand it. I love what I do. "
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Stand
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" There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. "
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Beauty
Many
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" We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. "
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Time
Design
God
" God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute. "
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Faith
God
Law
" Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls. "
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World
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Nothing
" You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation. "
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God
Community
" The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve. "
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Justice
Someone
" God tests His people through hardship. "
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" Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. "
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" Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. "
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" The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying. "
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" Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. "
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Culture
" Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me. "
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Strength
" Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways. "
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Hearts
Relationships
" Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture. "
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