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Keeping Christ at the Center
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Dan Baumgartner
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Colossians 1:15-17, Hebrews 1:3, 2 Corinthians 4:4, John 1:18, John 10:30, John 14:9
Christmas in May I’m pretty sure it was Stephen Covey, back in the day ( The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People ) who originally said, “The main thing is to let the main thing be the main thing...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Science and Religion
- Faith
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James 1:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 2:5, Romans 10:17, Proverbs 3:5-6, John 20:29, Hebrews 11:1
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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Luke Norsworthy
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- Faith
- Religion
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1 Peter 2:2, Colossians 2:6-7, Philippians 3:12-14, Ephesians 4:15, Galatians 5:1, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Romans 12:2
For some, faith begins with a hard shell, a rigid set of answers and platitudes that keep them safe but eventually prevent them from growing into who they could be. The system that was initially prote...
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J.C. Ryle on True Christianity
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J. C. Ryle
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- Christianity
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Hebrews 1:24, Galatians 5:17, 1 Peter 5:8-9, Romans 7:23, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
True Christianity is a fight. . . .There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster; it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not g...
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The Bringer of God
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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1 Peter 2:24, John 1:17, Galatians 2:21, Hebrews 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Titus 3:5
The Christian religion as a religion is not of God. It is on the contrary another example of a mortal road to God like the Buddhist or any other, although of course different in form. Christ is not th...
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A. W. Tozer
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Psalm 37:5, Jeremiah 17:7, 2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Hebrews 11:6
The man of pseudo-faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get in a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself w...
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Darth Vader
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- Faith
- Lack of Faith
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1 Peter 1:8-9, Ephesians 2:8, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 10:17, Mark 9:23, Matthew 17:20, James 1:6
I find your lack of faith—disturbing.
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A. W. Tozer
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- Faith
- Trust in God
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Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 26:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Matthew 6:33, Psalm 37:5
The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself...
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Dallas Willard
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1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 13:2, Isaiah 29:13, Hebrews 12:28, 2 Corinthians 3:18
To handle the things of God without worship is always to falsify them.
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Statistics on Religion in America: The Rise of the None's
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JR Woodward
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Matthew 7:13-14, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, Luke 18:8, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, Matthew 24:12-13
In March 2009, we received the results from the widest religious survey conducted in the United States, the ARIS (American Religious Identification Survey) study. There is much to gain from this repor...
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John Ortberg
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- Faith
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Matthew 14:31, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24, James 1:5-6
We live in an age when belief comes hard because we’re much more afraid of being gullible (believing something that’s not true) than we are of being skeptical (not believing something that is true). W...
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Evangelists Are Seen as Salesmen
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Don Everts and Doug Schaupp
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Matthew 5:14-16, John 13:34-35, 1 Peter 2:12, Titus 2:7-8, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Matthew 10:16
In another day and age, God, religion and church enjoyed the general respect of the culture. Not today. Religion is suspect, church is weird, and Christians are hypocrites. Distrust has become the nor...
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Michael Scott
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2 Corinthians 5:7, Acts 17:23, Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Colossians 2:8, Jeremiah 10:2
“I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.”
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Austin Fischer
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2 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Timothy 6:20-21, Romans 12:2, Colossians 2:8, James 1:5-6, Hebrews 11:1
By misinterpreting the Enlightenment and the corresponding rise of empiricism as an existential threat to Christian faith, many frightened Christians sequestered themselves into rooms of certitude.
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Alister E. McGrath
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- Science and Religion
- Faith
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1 Peter 1:8-9, Philippians 3:20, 1 Corinthians 2:9, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
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The Faithfulness of a Few
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Proverbs 28:20, Revelation 2:10, Matthew 5:10-12, Matthew 10:22, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, 1 Peter 4:12-14, Romans 8:35-37, John 15:18-20, Psalm 31:23, Matthew 25:21, 1 Corinthians 4:2, 1 Timothy 6:12, Matthew 24:45-46
Pliny, a Roman Governor serving around 112 AD, faced a challenging situation regarding Christianity. Many Church historians believe that by his time, it had become illegal to profess the Christian fai...
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Blaise Pascal
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- Doubt
- Faith
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Isaiah 42:16, Psalm 27:1, 2 Corinthians 4:6, John 8:12, Hebrews 11:1, 1 John 1:7, John 12:46
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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A. W. Tozer
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Colossians 3:2, Isaiah 26:3, Hebrews 12:1-3, Psalm 16:8, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7
Faith is a redirecting of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.
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Miguel de Unamuno
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- Beliefs
- Doubt
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Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Habakkuk 1:2, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 3:11
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation...
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A. W. Tozer
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1 Timothy 1:17, 1 Peter 1:8-9, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Colossians 1:16, Romans 8:24-25, John 20:29
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
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Martin Luther
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- Control
- Faith
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Matthew 17:20, Psalm 34:8, Isaiah 26:3-4, Jeremiah 17:7-8, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 8:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6
Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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Michael Gerson
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- Faith
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John 20:29, Romans 8:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
Faith, thankfully, does not preclude doubt. It consists of staking your life on the rumor of grace.
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Lauren F. Winner
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- Doubt
- Faith
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Proverbs 3:5-6, Philippians 4:6-7, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 1:5-6, Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 4:11-13, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
Maybe God has given some people belief like a pier, to stand on (and God has given those people’s steadiness to the church, to me, as a reminder, as an aid), and maybe God has given others something e...
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Opening Our Eyes to Deception
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Jared C. Wilson
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2 Corinthians 11:13-15, 1 John 4:1, Proverbs 14:15, John 8:32, Psalm 119:105
It’s important, then, to have our eyes open to this deception. How is it that so many modern promises sound true but in the end lead to our deception, or even our destruction? A long, long time ago, t...
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The Governing Center of our Faith
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Michael Reeves
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- Christianity
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Revelation 1:4-5, Ephesians 1:13-14, John 14:26, Colossians 2:9, 2 Corinthians 13:14
That which distinguishes Christianity has not been stolen. For what makes Christianity absolutely distinct is the identity of our God. Which God we worship: that is the article of faith that stands be...
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Emil Brunner
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1 John 2:1-2, Hebrews 8:6, Galatians 3:20, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Romans 5:8, Hebrews 9:15, John 14:6
In Christianity faith in the Mediator is not something optional, not something about which, in the last resort, it is possible to hold different opinions, if we are only united on the ‘main point’. Fo...
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George Muller
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- Faith
- The Impossible
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Luke 1:37, Jeremiah 32:27, Mark 11:23-24, Romans 4:20-21, Ephesians 3:20-21, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Hebrews 11:1
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.
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C. S. Lewis
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- Knowledge
- Faith
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Galatians 2:20, 1 Peter 1:8-9, James 1:6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Romans 10:17, Mark 9:24, John 20:29
Ramandu’s daughter: "You can't know, you can only believe - or not."
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Madeleine L'Engle
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Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 13:15, Habakkuk 1:2, Psalm 42:11
Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God,...
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Flannery O'Connor
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Psalm 46:10, John 20:29, Psalm 23:4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 50:10, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
People...think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross...You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clea...

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