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• “The perfect church service” by C.S. Lewis

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “Every church service is a structure of acts and words through which we receive a sacrament, or repent, or supplicate, or adore. And it enables us to do these things best– if you like, it ‘works’ best– when, through long familiarity, we don’t have to think about it. As long as you notice, and have to ...
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• “God the Holy Spirit must begin it” by Charles H. Spurgeon

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “My brethren, it is quite certain that no man ever begins the new birth himself. The work of salvation never started with the efforts of any man. God the Holy Spirit must begin it. Now, the reasons no man ever started the work of grace in his own heart are apparent. The best reason of all is because he cannot. He ...
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• “The church is the gospel made visible” by Mark Dever

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.” –Mark Dever, “The Church,” in A Theology For the Church , Ed. Daniel L. Akin (Nashville: B&H, 2007), 767.
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• “The idolatry of talent” by John Angell James

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “There is in this day an idolatry of talent running through society; and this man-worship has crept into the church, and corrupted its members. It is painful to perceive how far it is carried in many circles, and to see what homage is paid, and what incense is burnt, to their favourites. It is not religion or ...
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• ULI Dallas Report: America Is In A New Puritanical Environment

  
  Dallas Real Estate News, Housing Trends, Home Prices, Home Tours, Candy Evans, DallasDirt Blog D Magazine — Authority: 138
  That’s how the expert consultants on yesterday’s powerhouse panel of Emerging Trends in Real Estate put it. Translation: luxury has been temporarily buried. (I like to say it has gone underground.) Among the many notes I have scribbled are phrases like this: 3 million young people have moved back in with their ...
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• Maori MP Hone Harawira Lashes Out at NZ Govt

  
  Apartheid New Zealand — Authority: 131
  You’re asking me to “play along with their puritanical bullshit.”John Key: Harawira’s white tirade ‘deeply offensive’By MICHAEL FIELD – Stuff.co.nzPrime Minister John Key has labelled MP Hone Harawira’s email on white people “deeply offensive” and he wants action from coalition partner the Maori ...
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• “A plain Christ” by Charles H. Spurgeon

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “A plain Christ is forever the loveliest Christ. Dress Him up, and you have deformed Him and defamed Him. Bring Him out just as He is, the Christ of God, nothing else but Christ and Him crucified.” –Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Chief Office of the Holy Spirit” in Spurgeon on the Holy Spirit (New ...
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• “Greater glory among the oxen” by Charles H. Spurgeon

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “Think for a minute of Christ’s person as revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. What can more glorify Him than for us to see His person, very God of very God, and yet as truly man? What a wondrous being, as human as ourselves, but as divine as God! Was there ever another like Him? Never. Think of His incarnation, ...
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• “The glory of Christ lies in Himself” by Charles H. Spurgeon

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “The things that glorify Christ are all in Christ. The Holy Spirit brings nothing from abroad, but He takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us. The glory of kings lies in their silver and gold, their silk and gems, but the glory of Christ lies in Himself.” –Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Chief Office of ...
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• “Defined by the worship of God” N.T. Wright

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “Christians are not defined by skin colour, by gender, by geographical location, or even, shockingly, by their good behaviour. Nor are they defined by the particular type of religious feelings they may have. They are defined in terms of the God they worship . That’s why we say the Creed at the heart of our ...
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• “The dearest place on earth” by Charles H. Spurgeon

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “Give yourself to the Church. You that are members of the Church have not found it perfect and I hope that you feel almost glad that you have not. If I had never joined a Church till I had found one that was perfect, I would never have joined one at all! And the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should ...
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• Examining Breasts Leads to Probing Dicks

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 125
  Only here in puritanical Merica or puritanical Saudi Arabia, will you find a steady stream of outraged humans, outraged over the bearing of outrageous breasts, during a breast cancer awareness segment on the teevee news.Outrageous!Coincidentally, only here in Merica will you find more self identifying Republicans, ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Where sin can’t breathe” by Kris Lundgaard

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “We worship a tender Father as well as a ‘consuming fire’ (Hebrews 12:28-29). Sin can’t breath in an atmosphere of fear and reverence before God. It suffocates. Can you imagine your lust cheery and prosperous when you are on your face before a holy God?” –Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within ...
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• “Indwelling sin is our Judas” by Kris Lundgaard

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “Dante found Brutus, Cassius, and Judas in the deepest pit of hell. Those who are traitors, who win the trust of their friends and then betray from the inside, are the most wicked of all. Indwelling sin is our Judas.” –Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1998), 31.
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• “Be always praying” by Thomas Brooks

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “A Christian must not only pray, but hold on in prayer, until he hath got the heavenly prize. We are daily in want, and therefore we have need to be praying daily. The world is always alluring, therefore we have need to be always praying. Satan is always tempting, therefore we have need to be always praying. And we ...
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• “Heaven is a world of singing” by Jonathan Edwards

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other, is by music. When I form in my mind an idea of a society in the highest degree of happiness, I think of them as expressing their love, their joy, and the inward concord and harmony and spiritual beauty ...
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• “God’s patience” by Stephen Charnock

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “God’s patience is the silence of His justice, and the first whisper of His mercy.” ––Stephen Charnock,  The Existence and Attributes of God , vol. 2, (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000),  478.
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• “Sensible of the love of Christ” by John Owen

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “They know nothing of the life and power of the gospel, nothing of the reality of the grace of God, nor do they believe aright one article of the Christian faith, whose hearts are not sensible of the love of Christ.” –John Owen, “A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ,” in The ...
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• “Our faith is a Person” by Charles H. Spurgeon

  
  Tolle Lege — Authority: 128
  “Our faith is a Person. The gospel that we have to preach is a Person. And go wherever we may, we have something solid and tangible to preach. If you had asked the twelve apostles, in their day, ‘What do you believe in?’ they would not have needed to go round about with a long reply, but they would have pointed ...
  6 weeks ago

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