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Jun 15
There were two trees in the Garden of Eden which challenged the course of the entire human race - the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. These same two “trees” continue to challenge us. When one becomes a Christian, the challenges do not end
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Jun 15
- they may well increase. Many times we will have to choose between the fruit of these trees. Between them lies the focal point of the dichotomy between the Kingdom of God and the present evil age.
- Rick Joyner
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Jun 15
The knowledge of good and evil kills us by distracting us from the One who is the source of life: The Tree of Life - Jesus. The Tree of Knowledge causes us to focus our attention upon ourselves
- Rick Joyner
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May 15
God is not simply saving diverse individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather he is creating a people for his name, among whom God can dwell and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character in all its unity and diversity
- Gordon D. Fee
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May 14
The gathered church is the place of God’s own personal presence, by the Spirit
- Gordon D. Fee in "Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God"
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May 13
Most remarkable of all, Jesus goes to the Father in order to prepare a dwelling-place (Jn. 14:2) for the disciples, while the Paraclete comes from the Father in order to prepare a dwelling-place (Jn. 14:23) for the Father and the Son
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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May 13
At Sinai, Moses ascended into God's presence, and the law of God, written on tablets of stone, was brought down to the people. At Pentecost, Jesus ascended into God's presence and God's Spirit was sent down, writing the law on the hearts of the people
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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May 4
Women's ministry leaderss are often the first to be trusted with confessions of victimisation, the first line of defense for theologically sound Bible study, the first to ensure meals are taken to the bereaved. They are functional mothers in the family of God
- Jen Wilkin
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May 4
As goes the home, so goes the church, so goes the nation
- Joel R. Beeke
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May 3
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy
- C.S. Lewis
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May 3
I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God
- Elisabeth Elliott
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May 2
I would rather have ten men who want God than ten thousand who want to play church
- Leonard Ravenhill
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May 1
Indeed, heaven and earth will, as it were, form one domain of righteousness in which the Spirit of God will be the all-pervasive atmosphere, just as the Lord God and the Lamb will be the temple, the glory of God its light, and the Lamb of God its lamp
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Apr 27
Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends
- George Muller
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Apr 21
We need to think of our tongues as a messenger that runs errands for our heart. Our words reveal our character
- Chuck Swindoll
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Apr 21
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply
- Hudson Taylor
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Apr 20
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. It is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Apr 19
If Christ is not risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is risen, nothing else matters
- Jaroslav Pelikan
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