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“…Take every word as spoken to yourself, with this essential anchor in place: Seek to understand first how God’s words fell on the original hearers, and how they relate to Jesus’ person and work, and then bring them home to yourself.”

Book:Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

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“The Bible is gloriously for us, but it is not mainly about us.”

Book:Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

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“In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.”

Book:Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

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“God designed the church to be a community of lifelong learners under the earthly guidance of leaders who are teachers at heart. The Christian faith is not a finite course of study for the front-end of adulthood. Our mind-set shouldn’t be to first do our learning and then spend the rest of our lives drawing from that original deposit of knowledge. Rather, ongoing health in the Christian life is inextricably linked to ongoing learning.”

Book:Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

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“Nothing shows our hearts like sacrifice. When we are willing not only to give from our excess, but to embrace some personal loss or disadvantage for the sake of showing generosity toward others, we say loudly and clearly…that we have a greater love than ourselves and our comforts.”

Giving Sacrifice

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“It is the grace of God that frees a soul from selfishness and empowers not just generosity, but sacrifice. And such sacrifice God will not overlook. In faith our giving to meet others’ needs becomes an occasion for more divine grace to flood our souls.”

Book:Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

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