Quotes by Pastors - Page 4

The church that emphasises on miracles are indirectly preaching that merit does not mater.
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Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture. I want to use the word 'liturgy' to refer to this intent and practice of the church insofar as it pulls everything in and out of the sanctuary into a life of worship, situates everything past and present coherently as participation in the revelation written for us in Scripture. Instead of limiting liturgy to the ordering of the community in discrete acts of worship, I want to use it in this large and comprehensive way, the centuries-deep and continents-wide community, spread out in space and time, as Christians participate in actions initiated and formed by the words in this book - our entire existence understood liturgically, that is connectedly in the context of the three personal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and furnished with the text of the Holy Scripture.
Eugene H. Peterson
The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of two movements. First it gets us into the sanctuary, the place of adoration and attention, listening and receiving and believing before God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives ordered to all aspects of the revelation of God in Jesus.Then it gets us out of the sanctuary into the world into places of obeying and loving ordering our lives as living sacrifices in the world to the glory of God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives out on the street participating in the work of salvation.
Eugene H. Peterson
Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Wayne Cordeiro
God has chosen to make the heavens his jurisdiction while at the same time he himself makes it very clear that the earth has been given to man as man’s sphere of influence.
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The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth.
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The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.
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The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don’t have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it
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The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain. Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.
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More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son
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The mandate of the church is to promote kingdom expansion throughout the earth
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Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.
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When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you.
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For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.
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Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.
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When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
Craig Groeschel
To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit
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You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.
Craig Groeschel
If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
Craig Groeschel
To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness
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I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message
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Jefferson also founded the first intentionally secularized university in America. His vision for the University of Virginia was for education finally free from traditional Christian dogma. He had a disdain for the influence that institutional Christianity had on education. At the University of Virginia there was no Christian curriculum and the school had no chaplain.
Daryl C. Cornett
Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.
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Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
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Discover your gift if you don’t want to live the life of an ordinary person
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If you can dedicate yourself to asking questions to reveal your potential, you will discover your potentials and start to fulfil your mission
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If you don’t want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus
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Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise
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one primary enemy of the Gospel—legalism—comes in two forms. Some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by keeping the rules, doing what they’re told, maintaining the standards, and so on (you could call this “front-door legalism”). Other people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by breaking the rules, doing whatever they want, developing their own autonomous standards, and so on (you could call this “back-door legalism”).
Tullian Tchividjian
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
A.W. Tozer
Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Craig Groeschel
More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis.
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If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.
Randy Alcorn
This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing
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The domain of God is primarily heaven. That is where he has limited himself to.
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He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
Craig Groeschel
The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis
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A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence
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I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
Matt Chandler
If a man realizes who he is, he cannot be hurt, humiliated or offended
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Purpose Erases Deep Hurts
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Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.
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To flee from sin is to retain heaven on earth
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A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.
A.W. Tozer
Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.
Craig Groeschel
Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.
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I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.
Craig Groeschel
Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting
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The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.
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Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.
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When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!
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It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake.
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When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
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We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.
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Haman is a symbol of a typical ungodly government representative
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Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being
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Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest
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If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe
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To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws
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