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Higher-level freedom requires commitment and courage. You choose your standard and live based on that standard, regardless of the associated risks or costs. No one can give you this higher-level freedom. A matter of conscious choosing,
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“The second sign that the Samaritan woman had been saved was the change that occurred in her life. According to the Bible, a bare confession of faith is not in itself enough to demonstrate a new birth. The reason is that a confession of faith is not credible unless it is accompanied by a changed life. It is one thing to recite "the sinner's prayer" or give verbal assent to the gospel, but a true conversion will lead to a living faith-not a dead faith-that bears the spiritual fruit of change in one's life.”
― Jesus the Evangelist: Learning to Share the Gospel from the Book of John
― Jesus the Evangelist: Learning to Share the Gospel from the Book of John
“the world is so charged with God’s grandeur that, if we had but eyes for it, we would discover his glory—and his grace—breaking out in the most ordinary of situations.”
― For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty
― For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty
“Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: “We give thanks to thee for thy great glory.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Men and women of faith should be the first to argue that God does not need federal funds to do his work. When they get involved in charitable work, it’s usually with the knowledge that a change of heart will often do more than a welfare check to conquer poverty. They focus on changing hearts, one heart at a time.”
― For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty
― For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty
“God's love never says, "I don't want to change you." Because God's love is holy, He intends to change us by loving means, so that we will become the holy people we were always meant to be.”
― Jesus the Evangelist: Learning to Share the Gospel from the Book of John
― Jesus the Evangelist: Learning to Share the Gospel from the Book of John
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