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" Our God is a great coach, and he's got a great playbook. "
Tony Evans
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" The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil. "
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" Anyone who knows me knows that I love football. "
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" 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. "
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" God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority. "
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" Christians historically have believed wrong on issues. Take slavery: they believed wrong on that issue for generations, and it had, just, repercussions that were staggeringly negative for our culture and my community. So it is possible to be Christian and to believe wrongly and practice wrongly. "
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" I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome. "
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" Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house. "
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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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" Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other. "
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" God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant. "
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" We should love people, care about people regardless of where they come from. "
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" I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. "
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" Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others. "
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" Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society. "
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" It is in following Christ as our captain that we can win in our personal lives, families, churches, and communities. "
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" 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. "
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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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" God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures. He never wants you to make your distinction, your history, or your background so precious to you that it messes up His team. "
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" We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God. "
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Even
" In order to impact our society, we need to first model unity in the church. "
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" The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue. "
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" As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate. "
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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. "
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" The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics. "
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" The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject. "
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" When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering. "
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" Separation of church and state should never mean separation of God and right. "
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" I've talked to men who feel like they're overly sexual and, therefore, are attracted to any female who walks down the street. I will not excuse his activity with every female just because he feels driven in that direction. "
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