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much contemporary Christian spirituality tends to view the spiritual life as a static possession rather than a dynamic and ever-developing growth toward wholeness in the image of Christ. When spirituality is viewed as a static possession,
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“What have been the moments in your life when you’ve most felt despair? What areas of your heart and story does despair touch? Can you trace a misplaced hope behind it? A hope that is cheaper and lesser than our truest hope? And can you renounce that false hope right now?”
― Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive
― Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive
“Satan can do nothing about God’s unshakable kingdom directly, but only indirectly through human infirmity and rebellion.”
― Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
― Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
“Most leaders shipwreck or live inconsistent lives because of forces and motivations beneath the surface of their lives, which they have never even considered.”
― The Emotionally Healthy Church, Updated and Expanded Edition: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives
― The Emotionally Healthy Church, Updated and Expanded Edition: A Strategy for Discipleship That Actually Changes Lives
“Satan’s constant assault is aimed at our belief in God’s goodness and power, that God will supply all our needs, and that we can trust God to be sufficient in all ways. When our minds are on God, and our thoughts are formed by our knowledge of God, such sufficiency will flow to us. Thus Satan’s main task is to keep our minds elsewhere, anywhere but on God.”
― Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
― Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
“When we get up out of bed in the morning, among our first thoughts should be this: Lord, speak to me. I’m listening. I want to hear your voice. This is not because it’s a nice way to start the day, but because the only thing that can keep us straight is being full of God and full of his Word. If you don’t do something like this, you do not have the option of having a neutral mind. Your thoughts cannot be empty. As the old saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum. If you are not entertaining God’s truth, you will be entertaining Satan’s lies. This is what happened to each one living in the days of Noah when “every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5). Now contrast that with Jesus.”
― Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
― Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of Psalm 23
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