الإيمان والأمل والحب

Can I be totally honest with you? I believe that grace is one of the most misunderstood subjects in the contemporary Church. On the one hand, there are legalists who seem to forget that salvation is by grace through faith and not by works. They turn Christianity into a lifeless religion plagued by futility and marked by always-failing human effort.
On the other hand, there are leaders who seem to forget that salvation by grace includes freedom from sin as well as forgiveness of sin. They turn Christianity into a religion that “saves” but doesn’t transform. Both positions are wrong. Dead wrong.

Michael Brown (via nameaboveallnames)

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Many of us believe we have as much of God as we want right now, a reasonable portion of God among all the other things in our lives. Most of our thoughts are centered on the money we want to make, the school we want to attend, the body we aspire to have, the spouse we want to marry, the kind of person we want to become…. But the fact is that nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God; it’s about eternity, and nothing compares with that. God is not someone who can be tacked on to our lives.

Francis Chan, Crazy Love (via an-ge-lo)

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You are happiest when you are fully satisfied in God. His Glory and your Joy are not competing; they are inextricably combined. His greatest glory is when you enjoy Him and your greatest joy is when you give Him glory.

John Piper (via iridescentmystery)

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Joshua 1:9 (Taken with Instagram)

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

Matt Chandler, The Explicit Gospel (via radquotes)

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Restore in me the joy of my Salvation.

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But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God’s sight than to be lovely in man’s sight and lame in God’s.

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (via bradfordnick)

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God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts His people in situations where they come face to face with their need for Him. In the process He powerfully demonstrates His ability to provide everything His people need, in ways they could have never mustered up or imagined. And in the end, He makes much of His own name.

David Platt, Radical (via blakebaggott)

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God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts His people in situations where they come face to face with their need for Him. In the process He powerfully demonstrates His ability to provide everything His people need, in ways they could have never mustered up or imagined. And in the end, He makes much of His own name.

David Platt, Radical (via amartyrschallenge)

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Let’s pray that God would empower us so radically that we would get no glory. That people would see our works and glorify God.

Francis Chan, Forgotten God (via martelthechristianrapper)

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communityforchrist:

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Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God. You can scare people into coming to your church, you can scare people into trying to be good, you can scare people into giving money, you can even scare them into walking down an aisle and praying a certain prayer, but you cannot scare people into loving God. You just can’t do it.

Matt Chandler (via martelthechristianrapper)

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And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

John 14:16-20 (NIV)