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To share in Christ’s suffering, we must first walk in His ways.  I’ve we’re just doing what’s right in our own eyes the resultant suffering is simply a consequence.

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Eve was God’s response to what He saw missing in Adam’s existence. She wasn’t created to do everything he could do, she was created to do what he couldn’t do for himself.  We weren’t meant to compete, we were meant to complete.

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In order to qualify as a “Follower” you must be willing to allow someone else to take the lead, and then base your responses on their cues.

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There should be a marked difference between a “Reporter” and a “Narrator”.  One should be bound by facts, while the other is simply promoting their narrative. Clearly this distinction is evaporating within our culture.

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The measure isn’t how well we love those who love us (Matt.5:46), it’s how well we love those who don’t (Matt.5-44-45), and our relationship towards the “least of these” (Matt.25:40).

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It is important to discern the difference between gifts, fruit, and anointing.  While the gifts are not rescinded (Rom.11:29), real fruit comes from abiding in the vine (John 15:4), and true anointing flows from the Head (1John2:20).  We must know them by their fruit (Matt.7:16)

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We seem to be far more adept at articulating what we’re against than manifesting what we claim to believe in.

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Darkness is simply the absence of light.  The only way for the dark to get darker is for the light to abdicate its position.

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We tried to raise our kids with an awareness that they were special (i.e. unique, one of a kind), but we tempered that with the understanding that it didn’t make them better (or above) anyone.

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When an issue has been dealt with, God throws the offense into the sea of forgetfulness (Micah 7:19), whereas we tend to store our offense in a can on the stove, so we can use the residuals in the preparation of dishes we might want to serve at a later date.

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