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by Ben on October 16, 2009 · 0 comments

A person who worships God because God is man-centered is not God-centered. And the worship may not be worship.

John Piper.

October 11, 2009

It is easy to get wrapped up in some good aspect of the church (apologetics, politics, you name it) and miss the core—that it’s about Jesus. Then, all of a sudden, church becomes all about that lesser thing, and not about Christ. Josiah Bancroft

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September 13, 2009

Pastor Lee: what are some things you are afraid of? Kid #1: vampires Kid #2: tarantulas Pastor Lee: I’m afraid of the Burger King. He’s kind of creepy. Lee Ferguson, as a preface to a sermon on confessing God as “the Father aimighty” and how that leads to a life freed from fear.

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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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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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October 18, 2008

Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy… Warren Buffet, on why he is investing like crazy during this economic crisis. Food for thought.

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