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July 5, 2009

Christ says, ‘give me all.’ …Hand over the whole natural self. All the desires that you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked — the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself, my own will shall become yours. CS Lewis, as quoted [...]

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June 22, 2009

…So admit you’re the worst sinner you know. Admit you’re unworthy and deserve to be condemned. But don’t stop there! Move on to rejoicing in the Savior who came to save the worst of sinners. Lay down the luggage of condemnation and kneel down in worship at the feet of Him who bore your sins. [...]

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June 18, 2009

I’ve never thought of God this way, yet I’ve heard about Him literally all of my life… One of the guys in my “action group” Bible study last night.

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June 12, 2009

So many people are praying as though God just declared bankruptcy… I believe we are living in the suburbs of blasphemy when we pray for so little and ask for so little. Ron Dunn, in a talk recorded in 1974.

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May 27, 2009

Misty: Can I get a “what what?” Mike: “Why? Why?” Our project directors are getting loopy from all the planning.

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April 26, 2009

When you start to believe that real change can’t happen (in yourself or others), it means you’ve either stopped believing in the Holy Spirit, or started to believe you are Him. Dave Desforge (one of our teaching pastors)

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March 11, 2009

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so [...]

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March 3, 2009

To all those who came to Nashville to pursue your dream of being a musician, we say… We’ll have a sweet tea. 102.9 the buzz, a local radio station here.

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March 2, 2009

Does he know how to punch bad guys? Ethan (3 years old) in reference to Benjamin (9 months)

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February 10, 2009

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred proof grace–bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us singlehandedly. The word of the Gospel–after [...]

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