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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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“The more we understand God's truth, the more we are struck by the mystery.”
― The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
― The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
“If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God's kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.”
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“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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“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
“The pursuit of autonomous metaphysics is idolatry.”
― The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
― The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
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