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“Participants in the new covenant are not required to obey most of the commandments found in the first half of their Bibles. Participants in the new covenant are expected to obey the single command Jesus issued as part of his new covenant. Namely: As I have loved you, so you must love one another.7”
― Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World
― Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World
“The battle for our minds is won as we focus on Jesus—every moment, every hour, every day.”
― Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
― Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
“God’s works are powerfully evident in His healing of our hurts, but perhaps even more profoundly in the not-yet healing. That’s why how we suffer matters. Suffering strong offers a unique testimony to all who witness it, unveiling an “in the midst of” God who is too big and too good not to be worshiped, whether or not our longed-for outcome materializes.”
― Suffer Strong: How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything
― Suffer Strong: How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything
“Honor everyone. Lovea the brothers and sisters.b Fear God.c Honor the emperor.”
― CSB Tony Evans Study Bible: Advancing God’s Kingdom Agenda
― CSB Tony Evans Study Bible: Advancing God’s Kingdom Agenda
“Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
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