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"I didn't read this for a few days while I was spending so much time reading about growing succulents. It's so great to be reading this again. Nothing compares to the Puritans, outside the Bible." — Jan 25, 2018 07:32PM
"I didn't read this for a few days while I was spending so much time reading about growing succulents. It's so great to be reading this again. Nothing compares to the Puritans, outside the Bible." — Jan 25, 2018 07:32PM
The source of sin lies closer to home than you or I may want to admit. It’s easy to blame God or the devil for our struggles, but the primary source of our sin lies within our own hearts. Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me”
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“Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense.”
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“The Christian who is not diligently involved in a serious study of Scripture is simply inadequate as a disciple of Christ. To be an adequate Christian and competent in the things of God we must do more than attend “sharing sessions” and “bless me parties.” We cannot learn competency by osmosis. Biblically illiterate Christians are not only inadequate but unequipped. In fact, they are inadequate because they are not equipped.”
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“If we fail to recognize there is a unified whole to Scripture, we will have only a pile of pieces. Simplistic slogans, formulas and catchphrases will not suffice in conveying the richness of the Scriptures.”
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“Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.”
― Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord?: A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus
― Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord?: A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus

“On feeling guilty about lack of 'productivity':
"In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment."
--Marva Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill pg 137”
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"In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment."
--Marva Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill pg 137”
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