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““The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.””

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“Our chief need is not affirmation but transformation.”

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“Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.”

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“Jesus came to embolden us, not to anesthetize us.”

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“He concluded the point with an explosive distinction: “The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism,’” not secularist thought, for “Christianity is founded upon…

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“The Christian church is losing its grasp on heaven and hell.”

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“Pastors are appointed by God to help their people see that the church walks in the light and all others in darkness. We, the…

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“But Ockenga did not shy away from identifying himself—and his pulpit—with Calvinism, which many years prior had shaped the New England mind. “Whatever we…

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“Whatever response we draw, we’ve got to know this: evangelism is not easy. It’s not supposed to be. It’s challenging to tell someone that…

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“You follow God, and you just might get asked to walk in the wilderness. For forty years.”

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“Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.”

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