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Favourite quotes:

The moment you turn to look again is when you've committed the sin with your eyes.

—Probably Ed or Sham

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Don't lust in your heart for her beauty. 

Proverbs 6:25

When it feels like freedom.

The below is a good description of what I fear most when I'm overwhelmed by stress, anxiety and frustration; when my ears become closed to the voice of reason yet very wide open to the voice of my nerves and mass emotions; when I won't give a damn about the world, truth or responsibility.

And, after the storm, amendments may need to be made, apologies may need to be said, and certain requests may need to be offered to God.

Emotions are real. Sin is real. Responsibility is real. We will have to deal with it. But thank God that Jesus died for the church that there may be support, encouragement and friendship.

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In your anger do not sin;

when you are on your beds,

search your hearts and be silent.

Offer right sacrifices and trust in the LORD.

Psalm 4:4-5

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I don't want prayer to be something that is tacked-on today or something that we're just going to do when we have some spare time. If we want God to be working today, we want to be praying. So we are going to make time to pray — I want everyone to just drop everything they're doing at 11am and pray.

Sam Mak

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In the beginning there was nothing - which exploded.

Big Bang Theory

"Preaching is not primarily to impart information. It is, rather, to produce an impression."

It is seldom that any of our bad habits or flaws disappear by a mere nature process of natural extinction. At least it is very seldom it is done by the instrumentality of reasoning or by the force of mental determination. What can not be destroyed however may be dispossessed. One case may be made to give away to another and to lose its power entirely has the reigning affect of the mind. Here’s an example: A youth may cease to idolize sensual pleasure but it is because of the idol of wealth. The desire to make money has gotten ascendancy, so he becomes disciplined. But the love of money might have ceased to be in his heart if he was draw to ideology and politics. Now he is lorded over by the love of power and moral superiority instead of wealth. But there is not one of these transformations in which the heart is left without an object. The human heart’s desire for one particular object is conquered. But its desire to have some object of adoration is unconquerable. The only way to dispossess the heart of all its affection is by the expulsive power of a new one. Thus is it not enough to hold out to the world the mirror of its own imperfections, it is not enough to come forth with the demonstration...of the character of their enjoyment, it is not enough to just simply speak the conscience, to speak its follies. Rather, you must seek, as a preacher, every legitimate method of finding access to the heart for the love of Him who is greater than the world.

Thomas Chelmers,
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

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Let us, I say, permit the Christian man to open his heart and his ears to all the discoveries addressed to him by God, only with this moderation, that as soon as the Lord closes his sacred mouth, he shall also desist from further inquiry. This will be the best barrier to sobriety, if, in learning, we not only follow the leadings of God, but as soon as he ceases to teach, we give up our desire of learning.

The Gospel As Taught By Calvin.