These are the 25 books that I would most recommend for growing in spiritual maturity. I tried to rank them in terms of priority for reading. It is genuinely hard to compare two excellent books that have different topics, so the positions could easily be moved around some. 1) The Bible. Regular reading of the …
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“Talk with God with the thoughts of which your heart is full. If you enjoy the presence of God, if you feel drawn to love him, tell him so. Such sensible fervor will make the time of prayer fly without exhausting you, for all you will have to do is to pour forth from you …
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This page is designed to help you find and read some of the best quotes from some of our favorite authors. As you scroll down, you can click on the authors’ names or the book titles to go to quotes by the author or from the book, or you can simply browse the entire compilation …
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“It is to our shame that, in our era, church services do not focus more on actually seeking God… Only rarely do we depart a congregational meeting with the fire of eternity reflecting off our faces. Instead, we fill up with information about God without actually drawing near to Him. Most of us are still …
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How can we who died to sin still live in it? [3] Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? [4] We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by …
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This message has a big title to live up to, and I thought about changing it to something less bold, because I didn’t want people to come away from this saying that the best thing about the message was the title. When you prepare a message, it is good to have a clear objective in …
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One of my favorites Psalms is the 23rd Psalm. There are few verses in all of Scripture that speak more powerfully about the rich and abundant life that is found in a walk of intimacy with God. As you read the words of the first three verses, let them speak to your heart: The LORD …
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Introduction The good news about becoming a friend of God is that God already desires to be your friend!1 So you do not have to fear rejection, because He is already prepared to accept you whenever you decide that you want to be His friend. The second piece of good news is that you do …
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Key Point 1: Be reconciled to God. The Bible teaches that there is only one way to be truly reconciled to God. Reconciliation comes through believing in Jesus, God’s one and only Son, who died on a cross to pay the penalty for our sins. The kind of belief referred to in the Bible is …
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