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• To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

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  Honor, Worship, Decree

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today”, p.165, David C Cook

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• Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

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  Standards, Standards Of Beauty, Ultimate

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• If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

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  Essence, Grace, Ifs

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.176, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

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  Important, Sake, Truth Is

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• Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station and television channel in the land. Never does the church get as much free air time as during the Christmas season.

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  Christmas, Air, Land

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• Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

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  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

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• When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

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  Stakes

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• What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

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  Christ, Left

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• The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?

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  Real, People, Soul

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today”, p.120, David C Cook

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• We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

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  Listening, Trying, Christ

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• When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

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  Encounters

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• The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church

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  Christian, Biblical, Views

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• The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

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  Opposites, Temptation, Satan

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• The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.

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  Integrity, Forgiving, Matter

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• Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

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  Real, Long, Identity

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• We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

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  Faith, Religious, Long

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• Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

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  Moments, Without God, Universe

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• When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

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  Depression, Garden, Feelings

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• People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator.

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  People, Humanity, Needs

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• Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.

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  Mean, Christ, Given

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2016

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• We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

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  Giving Up, Doe, Able

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 1: The Holiness of God / Chosen by God”, p.364, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

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  House, Firsts, Sand

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• When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

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  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.94, Hendrickson Publishers

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• It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.

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  Brother, Compassion, Important

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• The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

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  Christian, Growth, Enemy

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