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“What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.” quote by Dallas Willard — Download Open image

“What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.”

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“While it is in one sense a result of God’s presence within us, the New Testament also describes a process involved in our “putting on” the Lord Jesus Christ. It is repeatedly discussed in the Bible under three essential aspects, each inseparable from the other, all interrelated. This process could be presented in a “golden triangle” of spiritual transformation, for…

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"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

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“Sabbath is a way of life (Heb 4:3; 9-11). It is simply "casting all your anxiety on Him," to find that in actual fact…

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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to…

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“The Spirit makes Christ present to us and draws us toward his likeness. It is as we thus behold the “glory of the Lord”…

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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

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We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all…

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We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

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My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging…

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