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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

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Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

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Go, send, or disobey.

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Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to was...more

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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the c...more

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It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

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God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nati...more

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I should interweave my theology with prayer. I should frequently interrupt my talking about God by talking to God. Not far behind the theological sent...more

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God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it a...more

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I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Be...more

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I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the...more

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Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ w...more

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We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

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The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great love...more