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Josh Hawkins: Early church evangelism proclaimed Jesus as the anointed king who would reign in Jerusalem. Nowadays He's just "the way to heaven"

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Brian Kim: When will the Gospel become again to us what it once was to the early church - foolish, but dangerous (1 Cor 1:18)

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Matt Candler: None saw the coming of the Seed (Gn3) as a seed to die in the ground that it's Life would bear fruit in the soil of sinful humanity (Jn12).

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David Pawson: True believers not only wait for Jesus. They long for his appearing. They not only have thoughts about it. They have feelings about it.

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Stuart Greaves: God stooped down so low to touch dust with His own hands & breathe with His own mouth in man's nostrils to form humanity.

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Sarah Sun Kim: Heard a report of a house of 10 college girls each tithing a tenth of their day to Jesus to pray 24/7 for a week. Glory! Is.56:7

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Tozer “You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically and just as empty as one spiritually"

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Stuart Greaves: We love a Man we have not seen and yet He's so beautiful to us 1 Peter 1:8

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"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness." - Martin Luther

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"Love of God, love through me. Make me like thine clear air through which unhindered colors pass as if it were not there." - Amy Carmichael

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Blaire Pilkington: In Ex.2 Moses is an activist. In Ex. 3 he's a Prophet & Deliverer. What seperates the two? The backside of the desert!

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"A journey to power or glory that bypasses the journey of the cross is detrimental, illusionary and strictly unbiblical." Daniel Lim

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Mike Bickle: There is nothing that transforms our hearts and satisfies us more than when the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus to us

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"The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is He (Jesus) to you “fairer than the children of men”—“the chief among ten thousand”—the “altogether lovely”?" (Spugeon)

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Christology Sessions 9-12 start this Sunday morning. Super excited to behold Jesus. -David

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Bob Sorge: The deeper you go in truth, the higher you can soar in worship. (John 4:24)

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Stephen Venable: Every generation must stand at the crossroads & decide to either accept barrenness or to contend for the power of God.

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David Sliker: One key error of American Christianity is the pressure placed on Sunday mornings to "deliver". Once-a-week Christianity can never deliver.

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John Piper: Hair like snow. Eyes like fire. Feet like bronze. Voice like waters. Holding stars. Breathing a sword. Face like the sun.

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David Sliker: The knowledge of God and the revelation of Christ Jesus is the prize of all the ages, the treasure that moves us forever. It's too lofty to grasp that Jesus, our Lord, considers His Bride the prize of all the ages, the treasure that moves Him forever.

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Stuart Greaves: The issue before us in this hour is beholding Christ and Him crucified. 1Cor2:2; Gal 3:1

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Corey Russell: If the Lord tarries,this is what I want written on my tombstone: "They shall see His face and His name shall be on their foreheads"(Rev22:4)

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Bob Sorge: If you have desire for Christ and also “desires for other things” (Mk. 4:19), you cannot bear fruit to God. A divided heart is unfruitful.

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Dalton Lifsey: The missions movement is weakened and undermined by the avoidance of eschatology. The second coming is central to NT missions.

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Tracey Sliker: Pray like every word you utter & even think is heard & remembered by an eternal Man of pure light who will answer & never forget.

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“Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.” - Corrie ten Boom

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John Piper: The words of Jesus are the window through which we see the Light of Jesus. And through which we climb by faith.

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Stephen Venable: Unable to consistently find our keys and remember names, we turn around and champion our newly-formed opinions about the Bible with unflagging confidence.... read on here.

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Stephen Venable: The "freedom" of grace is not the expression of the desires of the flesh but rather the subduing of them so we can enjoy the glory of Jesus.

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Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God - Mike Bickle

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Bill Johnson: Fire always falls on sacrifice. Be the sacrifice.

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Josh Hawkins: The wisest thing we can ever do is sit before Wisdom incarnate and hear as Mary did.

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"God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good." AW Tozer

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John Piper: Have you climbed to the top and looked over the ridge of your knowledge? The endless ranges of God take your breath away.

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"God created us to be worshipers, but sin draws us into everything else but worship." AW Tozer

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Justin Rizzo: What caused the Father to anoint Jesus with the oil of joy? Jesus hated wickedness and loved righteousness Heb 1:9

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John Piper: Ask for his Christ-revealing fullness now. "How much more will the Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask!” Luke 11:13

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David Sliker: The uniqueness of our faith is this, "God came to us to die, comes to us by His Spirit, and is coming again to dwell amongst us." At no point is Christianity ever about, "We get to God." Even heaven comes down to us at the consummation of all things.

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Corey Russell: The fear of the Lord is jealously guarding the gift that we have received in Jesus

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Sarah Sun Kim: When Jesus commands us to "learn," He zeroes in on mercy (Mt. 9:13), gentleness & lowliness of heart (Mt. 11:29) & the end times (Mt. 24:32)

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David Sliker: If your theology does not produce the fear of the Lord and trembling at His word, it lacks wisdom.

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David Sliker: The definitive statement of God’s approval, acceptance, and delight in us was spoken thunderously and eternally, at the cross.

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misty edwards: Jesus' humility moves me so deeply. There is no other god in all of history who is the "Servant of All"... O how I love Him!

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Benjamin Nolot: Facing the injustices of this world doesn't make me just, but it drives me to the One who is.

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David Pawson: The Jesus who could take little children on his knee and bless them could whip money-changers out of the temple. There are a few people on earth that can be a lion and a lamb, perfectly balanced. Jesus is a Lion and a Lamb together.

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Corey Russell: If we could get people to understand what they possess in Christ, and then teach them how to access it, we would see the greatest revival ever

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Mike Bickle: Jesus didn’t put on humility to just accomplish a task on earth. Humility it is part of His eternal nature.

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Dana Candler: As I behold by meditation the little eyes of God as a newborn, my heart swells with joy and then pines with longing to see His Eyes of Fire.

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David Sliker: Nobody's admiration or recommendation will be of any help to me at all on the day I stand before Jesus.

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David Pawson: Jesus is the only hope, the only person with sufficient ability and authority, to right the wrongs of this sick, sad and sinful world.

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David Sliker: As believers, it's our joy to mourn for the return of Jesus.

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Josh Hawkins: When we buy into the delusion of comfort in this present evil age, we numb our God-given heartache of the absence of Jesus.

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Stephen Venable: The life-coach version of Jesus so common today only yields a weak, sentimental remembrance of His 1st coming & no longing for His return. It's the beautiful & terrible Jesus of the Bible who incites wonder when our eyes look to the manger & longing when we look to the sky.

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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. -Corrie Ten Boom

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Stephen Venable: After His resurrection, Jesus did not appear to Herod, Pilate, or the high priest to try to convert them. He appeared to Mary Magdalene.

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David Sliker: Question: do you talk about Jesus as a concept to be understood or a Man to be known? How intimately have we connected to the details of Jesus' life, the depth of His concerns, and the breadth of His emotions and values?

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Dana Candler: Getting up close with an open heart to the wonder and awe of Jesus' First Coming always sweeps my heart into the raw ache for His Return.

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"Far be it from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorn." (Spurgeon)

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Bob Sorge: The task of preachers is to make manifest the mysteries of Christ (Col. 4:3), that is, the things about Christ which men don’t understand.

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Corey Russell: The judgement seat of Christ will be the great "shocker".We will be shocked over all of the seemingly insignificant things that moved heaven. We will also be shocked over all of the seemingly significant things that are consumed in a moment by His fire. 2 Cor 5.10 and 1 Cor 3.13-15

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Stephen Venable: Nothing anchors our faith to a Person & guards it from degenerating into a mere ideology or lifestyle like prayerfully reading the Gospels.

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Corey Russell: The Fear of the Lord is the awareness that God sees, He cares, and He will act. This is terrifying and comforting all at the same time.

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Think of running a race with no clear knowledge of the finish. So too our lives without lucid vision of Jesus' return & kingdom. - Stephen Venable

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Kurt Miller: I don't want to live in ease and comfort in this life; I want to take up my cross to demonstrate the worth of Christ to the world.

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David Pawson: One loving heart sets another on fire.

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The gospels are "records of a life which, in its majesty & beauty, infinitely transcended the capacities of invention or imagination"-Farrar

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Bob Sorge: Gal. 6:14 ...the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. A manned cross is grossly detestable. So when it says “the world has been crucified to me,” it means that the world has been made utterly abhorrent to me. Reciprocally, when I have been crucified to the world, the world looks at me and finds me entirely loathsome.

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Matt Candler: All the beautiful streams of the knowledge of God come forth from one fount - Jesus, the Living Waters.

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Lou Engle: Jesus said 'My house will be a house of prayer for all ethnic groups.' I believe we can empty out all our baggage of unforgiveness together and find each other in the place of prayer. Let's find each other at the cross.

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Bob Sorge: Psa. 105:24 He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies. God put Israel inside Egypt so they would grow. In 430 years, they grew from a family of 70 to a nation some three million strong. They became strong enough to conquer, inhabit, and hold their promised land. God sends you into captivity to grow you. Never waste a good prison sentence—get large

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Stephen Venable: The gospel is the coming of Yahweh and His eschatological kingdom of justice. The cross is what makes this good news instead of terrible news.

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Bill Johnson: I pay no attention to the warnings of possible excess from those who are satisfied with lack.

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Bob Sorge: Prov. 13:12, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” What is to be done with the grinding heartsickness that hope deferred produces? Harness the heartsickness: put down roots into God. When the desire comes, your testimony will be a tree of life to an entire generation. The thing about a tree is, it feeds more than just you.

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David Pawson: The most important opinion about your church and my church is not what anybody else says, but what Jesus says. (Rev 2 and 3)

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"The knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man with knowledge of both God and sin simultaneously." - Blaise Pascal

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"The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God." AW Tozer

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"...one great reason why people sometimes doubt the abiding value of God-centered preaching is because they have never heard any." John Piper

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A branch does not labor to produce fruit, it simply draws on the life in the vine. “‘I am the true vine…Every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.’” John 15:1-2 -Bob Sorge

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“If we do our simple part of obedience, the Lord will do His part, which is the largest."- Allen Hood

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Bob Sorge: Matt. 11:7 As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see?” Jesus affirmed that people went into the wilderness not to hear but to see John the Baptist. John was a burning and shining lamp, and people came from all over to watch him burn. Leaders: People don’t come to listen to you but to watch you.

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David Sliker: He is a King we are subject to, and a Judge we are accountable to; He is also a Bridegroom, which disarms our objections to the first two.

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Stephen Venable: Service of others begins with ministry to the Lord. I have nothing to offer my family or community unless my soul is actually alive in Jesus

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Stephen Venable: Skimmed thru a prominent Christian magazine & found no content that was actually focused on Jesus. How has that become normal?

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David Sliker: The Lord gave us so many ways to reach for "more" of Him: prayer, fasting, giving, worship, obedience. We can build our lives around Him.

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David Sliker: The way you live before God may seem foolish to many, but wisdom will be justified.

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Bob Sorge: Never assume God’s silence means no. If God hasn’t answered your prayer yet, here’s what you should take that to mean: He hasn’t answered your prayer yet. His silence is an invitation to wait on Him until He answers. 2 Cor. 1:20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen

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Lou Engle: Our passion is so dim because we only put a little wood on the altar once in a while. We were born to burn!

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David Sliker: God has given us everything we need to attain to godliness - every spiritual blessing has been made available; He desires our fullness.

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There is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world. J. C. Ryle

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Stephen Venable: "I meditate on all Your doings..." Ps 143:5 What a stunning statement! Few desire greater grace in intercession, fewer still in meditation.

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David Pawson: Those whom others would dismiss as relatively unimportant, Jesus treats with greater care.

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Shelley Hundley: When we understand that Jesus is the Judge, we understand an equally important truth-we are not! Rom.12:19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves

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Ron Downing: Whatever you set your gaze upon will consume your inner life (Luke 11.34-36; 2 Cor 3.18)

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Josh Hawkins: Pondering the childhood of Jesus never gets old. What must Mary have thought years later about her 5-year old upholding all things?

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Stephen Venable: Do we possess wealth? Are we comforted? Are we well-fed? Today do we laugh? Do men speak well of us? If so, Jesus says woe to us. Luke 6:24-26

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Bob Sorge: Things don’t change when I talk to God; things change when God talks to me. When I talk, nothing happens. When God talks, the universe comes into existence. That's why listening prayer is so important.

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Christology sessions 5-8 begin this Sunday downstairs. Sign up is in the dining room. May Jesus be exalted forever. -david

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Stephen Venable: I find I'm more stirred to pray by books about Jesus than by books on prayer. The latter can give vision, but the former is the substance.

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John G Lake: Is it not time that we came out of our theological debates, & get hold of the Eternal God, & called the power of Christ down?

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John Piper: We measure the worth of a treasure by what we will gladly give up to have it. (Philippians 3:7-8; Matthew 13:44)

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