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Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are le...more

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The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point tha...more

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We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and g...more

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Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and ce...more

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Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may ...more

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What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

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Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

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The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, if it’s the real Jesus you’re looking at. Plenty o...more

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Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote, your idea of worship will be fuzzy and ill-...more

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To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house ...more

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That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes...more

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The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organ...more

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The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is...more

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The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a ...more

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When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God. One of t...more