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Jake Meador
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Mark 8:36, Matthew 16:26, Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, Mark 4:18-19, Mark 10:43-44, Matthew 19:23-24, Matthew 6:19-21, 24-34, Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:32-34, Mark 10:24-25, Hebrews 10:25
The defining problem driving people out is …just how American life works in the 21st century. Contemporary American life simply isn’t set up to promote mutuality, care, or common life. Rather, it is d...
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Peter J. Gomes
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Ecclesiastes 2:10–11, Isaiah 55:2, Proverbs 11:28, Luke 12:15, 1 Timothy 6:7–8, Psalm 49:16–17
The search for the good life, which so often is defined in terms of “things” and the means to get as many “things” as possible, has turned into a dead end as more and more people have more and more.
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Erwin Chargaff
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Psalm 37:3-6 , Luke 12:16-21, Matthew 6:19-21 , Micah 6:6-8, 1 Kings 3:4-14
What do you want to achieve? Greater riches? Cheaper chicken? A happier life, a longer life? Is it power over your neighbors that you are after? Are you only running away from your death? Or are you s...
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Socrates
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1 Samuel 16:7, Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 , Proverbs 22:1, Matthew 6:19-21 , Luke 12:15-21 , Psalm 37:16
Be less concerned with what you have than with what you are.
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Kevin G. Ford
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Genesis 11:1-9 , Judges 17:6 , Exodus 32:1-6, Philippians 2:3-4 , Luke 12:16-21, Psalm 133:1
The problem is not recognizing the importance of the individual. The problem is the glorification of the individual. When the individual self is glorified over the greater good of the community, right...
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Jacques Ellul
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Matthew 6:24, Matthew 19:23-26, Mark 12:41-44, Luke 12:33-34, Mark 10:17-27
How do we overcome the spiritual “power” of money? Not by accumulating more money, not by using money for good purposes, not by being just and fair in our dealings. The law of money is the law o...
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Richard Sibbes
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Colossians 3:2, Philippians 3:20, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Romans 12:2, Hebrews 11:13-16, Matthew 6:19-21, 1 John 2:15-16, Luke 12:33-34, Luke 18:22, Matthew 19:21
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
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Mia Levetan
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Luke 12:13-21
Jesus is teaching us to stop loving things and using people and start using things and loving people.
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Phillips Brooks
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Exodus 3:10-12, Judges 6:11-40, Jeremiah 1:4-10, Psalm 18:32, Luke 12:32
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, but pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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Benjamin Franklin
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1 Timothy 6:6-10, Philippians 4:11-13, Proverbs 15:16, 1 Kings 21:1-16, Ecclesiastes 5:10, Philippians 4:11-13, Luke 12:15, Matthew 6:19-21, Psalm 37:16-17
Contentment makes much of little; greed makes little of much. Contentment is the poor man’s riches and desire the rich man’s poverty.
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N. T. Wright
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Luke 12:33-34, Luke 18:28-30, Acts 2:44-45, Matthew 19:21, Mark 10:29-30, Luke 14:26
Family and property, then, were not for the ancient Jew simply what they are to the modern western world. Both carried religious and cultural significance far beyond personal, let alone “individual,” ...
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David Livingstone
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- The Kingdom of God
- Possessions
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Acts 20:35, Proverbs 3:9, 2 Corinthians 9:7-8, Mark 10:21, Luke 12:33-34, Philippians 3:7-8, Matthew 13:44-46
I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving o...
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Thornton Wilder
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Luke 12:34, Matthew 13:44, Matthew 6:21
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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John Ortberg
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- Vulnerability
- Healing
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Psalm 51:6, Hebrews 4:13, Luke 12:2-3, 2 Corinthians 4:2, Psalm 32:5, Proverbs 28:13
The strangest thing happens when what we have most wanted to conceal is brought into the open. We don’t die. Instead, we often begin to heal.
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William Law
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Matthew 6:33, Matthew 22:37-39, Colossians 3:23-24, Luke 12:15, Mark 8:36-37, Philippians 3:8, Micah 6:8, Romans 14:8, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, Psalm 23:4, Philippians 1:21-23
If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we a...
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Oscar Wilde
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Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 , 2 Kings 5:15-27, Isaiah 55:1-2, Matthew 16:26, Luke 12:16-21 , Psalm 49:6-8
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Walter Brueggemann
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Psalm 23:1-5, Luke 12:22-34, John 6:1-13 , Isaiah 5:1-3 , 1 Kings 17:7-16
Jesus reminds us that the wounds of scarcity can be healed only by faith in God’s promise of abundance.
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Matthew 16:3, Luke 12:54-56
Let us not simply pray for a sign, if that’s what we want from God, but pray for a discerning heart — a heart open to seeing what God wishes to show us, able to reject what He is not, and willing to f...
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Watchman Nee
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Romans 8:, John 14:15-18, John 14:23, Acts 1:8, John 16:13, Mark 13:11, Luke 21:14-15, Luke 12:11-12, Matthew 10:19-20, 1 John 4:1
The indwelling Spirit shall teach him what is of God and what is not. This is why sometimes we can conjure up no logical reason for opposing a certain teaching, yet in the very depth of our being aris...
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Frederick Buechner
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Genesis 25:29-34, Exodus 16:1-36 , Proverbs 23:1-3, 19-21, Matthew 4:1-4 , Luke 12:16-21, Psalm 107:8-9
A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.
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Ambrose of Milan
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Luke 12:49, Luke 24:32
Love is good, having wings of burning fire that flies through the saints’ breasts and hearts and consumes whatever is material and earthly but tests whatever is pure. With its fire, love makes whateve...
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Cyril of Alexandria
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Luke 12:49
We affirm that the fire that Christ sent out is for humanity's salvation and profit... The fire is the saving message of the gospel and the power of its commandments... The gospel ignites all of u...
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R. Kent Hughes
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Luke 12:32-40, Romans 13:11-14, Matthew 24:36-44, Luke 21:25-28, John 5:28-29, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Revelation 1:7
Brothers and sisters, the coming of Christ is near. The ultimate epiphany is just around the corner. If we think otherwise, we tragically impoverish our souls. Most Christians think little of Christ’s...

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