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One Of The Great Misconceptions About Spiritual Growth That Develops In A Lot Of Churches Is That Information Alone Is Adequate To Produce Transformed Human Beings. So If We Want To Have A Church Of Spiritually Mature People, Let's Just Keep Cramming More And More Information Into Them... Information Alone Is Not Adequate For The Transformation Of The Human Personality.

Passion For Our Work Is Not Usually A Subterranean Volcano Waiting To Erupt...it Is A Muscle That Gets Strengthened A Little Each Day As We Show Up - As We Do What Is Expected Of Us, And Then Some.

The Harder You Strike It, The Deeper It Goes.

God Is Still In The Business Of Coming Down To Earth: To This Cubicle, This Email, This Room, This House, This Job, This Hospital Room, This Car, This Bed, This Vacation. Any Place Can Become Bethel, The House Of God. Cleveland, Maybe. Or The Chair You're Sitting In As You Read These Words.

Many Christians Expend So Much Energy And Worry Trying Not To Sin. The Goal Is Not To Try To Sin Less. In All Your Efforts To Keep From Sinning, What Are You Focusing On? Sin. God Wants You To Focus On Him. To Be With Him. “abide In Me.” Just Relax And Learn To Enjoy His Presence. Every Day Is A Collection Of Moments, 86,400 Seconds In A Day. How Many Of Them Can You Live With God? Start Where You Are And Grow From There. God Wants To Be With You Every Moment.