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" The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has. "
Tony Evans
Kingdom
Church
Unique
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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. "
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" Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God. "
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" When fathers come home after a tough day at work, they should come home to serve, like my father did, teaching lessons around the dinner table and leading the family in worship and prayer. "
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" Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare. "
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" We don't apologize for who we are. We do what we do as Christians. Our faith isn't hidden. There should never be a separation between God and good works. "
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" When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Anyone who knows me knows that I love football. "
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" If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference. "
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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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" Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite. "
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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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" Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control. "
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" And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization. "
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" Our God is a great coach, and he's got a great playbook. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible, the more chaotic things become. "
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" We need a right view of the cross. It is both a historical event that can take us to Heaven and a current event that can bring Heaven to bear on Earth. "
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