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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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" Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. "

" 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. "

" You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom. "

" I owe my life and hope to the gospel. "

" As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do. "

" Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see. "

" You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. "

" It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine. "

" Supernatural does not mean methodological stupidity. "

" I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel. "

" 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. "

" I want to learn from everybody. "

" Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging. "

" God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings. "

" I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors. "

" 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. "

" I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? "

" When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.' "

" God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. "

" God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that. "

" The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power. "

" Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. "