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- If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires…
- I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer…
- People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
- By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
- Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and…
- If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian…
- God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith,…
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