Christian Living on Impurity

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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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Loving and faithful God, You are holy,
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Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
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Loving and faithful God, You are holy, righteous, and pure; You are compassionate and just; You are perfect in all of Your ways. But we have slipped away from Your will; we have been selfish and self-...
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Gracious God, our hearts are often
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Laura B. Murray
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Psalm 51:10, Jeremiah 17:9-10, Matthew 5:8, Romans 7:21-23, James 4:8, Ezekiel 36:26, 1 John 3:3, Psalm 73:1, Psalm 24:3-4, Matthew 15:19-20, Romans 12:2, Psalm 139:23-24, Titus 1:15, James 1:2-8, Matthew 12:25
Gracious God, our hearts are often divided between what is good and what is evil. Not one of us is pure in heart yet we long to have a whole heart.
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The Deepwater Horizon Crisis and Our Need for a Savior
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Ryan Bundrick
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Romans 3:21-31, 1 John 1:7, Philippians 1:6, Ephesians 2:8-9, Colossians 2:13-14
In 2010, an oil rig named “Deepwater Horizon” suffered a catastrophic failure. Due to improper installation of the cement seal, a malfunctioning blowout preventer, and cost-cutting decisions by corpor...
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Lacking a Clear Path to Faith
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The Pastor's Workshop
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1 Kings 20:40, Matthew 6:34, Romans 7:19, Romans 8:11-14
One common mistake is assuming that everyone else finds faith easy, while we alone struggle. Yet there is comfort in recognizing that we are not alone in our pursuit of Christ in the midst of a broken...
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Adapted from the Sermon on the Mount
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Dustin Ray
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Matthew 5:27-28, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 5:43-44
Pastor: Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her i...
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The Gap Between the Promise and the Fulfillment
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Ben Patterson
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It isn’t easy to wait. It demands persistence when common sense says “give up.” It says “believe” when there is no present evidence to back it up. Faith is forged in delay. Character is forged in dela...
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Søren Kierkegaard
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- Purity Of Heart
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Father God, too often we show
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Scott B. Bullock
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Psalm 82:null, James 2:1-13
Father God, too often we show preference to those who appear to have it all together, to those whom we consider complete: the self-motivated, self-made, and self-sufficient. We honor the rich and look...
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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
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Charles Teixeira
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Mark 5:21-43, Mark 5:17-21, Leviticus 15:7
Intertwined Narratives Jesus’ encounters with Jairus’ daughter and the bleeding woman are sandwiched together with the intention that the two narratives would unlock and help to interpret the other....
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Baptism Gives us Assurance in Our Faith
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Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
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- Baptism
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Zechariah 13:1, Ephesians 1:7, Acts 2:38, Romans 6:3-4, Galatians 3:26-27, Colossians 2:12, Titus 3:5, 1 Peter 3:21
For us, Jesus instituted two ongoing signs to confirm our confidence in the gospel of his grace, the first of which is baptism. Though simpler and less obviously supernatural than the ten plagues on E...
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Mother Teresa
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- Purity Of Heart
To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautifu...
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D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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- Purity Of Heart
the only way to have a pure heart is to realize you have an impure heart.
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John Henry Newman
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- Purity Of Heart
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
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Thomas à Kempis
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- Purity Of Heart
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
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François Fénelon
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.
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Henry Drummond
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- Purity Of Heart
Become pure in heart. The pure in heart shall see God. Here, then, is one opening for soul-culture--the avenue through purity of heart to the spiritual seeing of God.
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Thomas à Kempis
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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
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Augustine of Hippo
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- Purity Of Heart
- Innocence
The so-called innocence of children is more a matter of weakness of limb, than purity of heart.
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John Hagee
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- Purity Of Heart
- Conflict
A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.
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R. V. G. Tasker
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- Purity Of Heart
[The pure in heart are] the single-minded, who are free from the tyranny of a divided self.
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Augustine of Hippo
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- Purity Of Heart
- Intentions
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
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A. W. Tozer
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Psalm 25:15
Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God we do...
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James A. Baldwin
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- Purity Of Heart
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Martin Luther
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- Purity Of Heart
Christ … wants to have the heart pure, though outwardly the person may be a drudge in the kitchen, black, sooty, and grimy, doing all sorts of dirty work. Though a common labourer, a shoemaker or a bl...
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Søren Kierkegaard
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John 15:12, Matthew 9:20-22, Luke 10:25-37, Galatians 5:22-23, Colossians 3:14, Romans 12:9-10
When one has once fully entered the realm of Love, the world—no matter how imperfect—becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for Love.
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Inspired by 1 John 5:4-12 and John 20:19-23
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William Barclay
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John 5:4-12, John 20:19-23
O God, our Father, in the life and death and resurrection of Jesus you have given us the remedy for sin. In him you have opened to us the way to forgiveness for all our past sins, and you have given u...
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Where there is hypocrisy in our life,
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Laura B. Murray
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Where there is hypocrisy in our life, please name it. Where we practice deception, please bring truth. In your goodness, meet us and heal us that we might be pure in heart and see you.
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Collect for Purity
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John 4:7-26, Isaiah 6:1-8, Revelation 4:11, Matthew 22:37, Ezekiel 36:26-27
Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you,...
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David Kinnaman
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Being salt and light demands two things: we practice purity in the midst of a fallen world and yet we live in proximity to this fallen world. If you don't hold up both truth in tension, you invari...