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Convictions:

• All truth is God’s truth

• You’re as close to God as you want to be

• The soul is dyed by the color of its thoughts

• We fight with attitudes, ideas, and words

• God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called

• Meekness is not weakness

• Thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to habits, habits lead to character, character leads to destiny

• The first step away from God is ingratitude

• We find, feed, and fight for the lambs of God

• God has a right on our lives. God’s right is founded in His value

• Love finds a need and meets it

• Rules without relationship lead to rebellion

• God is God and you are not

• What you do in moderation, they will do in excess

• We are saved from the power, the penalty, and the practice of sin

• No little people, no little places

• The cross will bear those who bear it

• The expulsive power of a greater affection

• Salvation equals lordship

• The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever

• If you want a friend, be a friend

• Christianity is a relaxed love relationship with God

• Hurt > Bitterness > Rebellion > Deception > Hurt Others

• God’s Kingdom is founded on inner freedom, not external force

• Why do you do the things you do and who do you do them for?

• Something must be loved before it becomes loveable

• Love is unselfishly choosing the highest good for God and His Kingdom

• Humility is a sober sense of reality

• One person with God is always the majority

• The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is more of the same God you already know

• Every person is a unique, irreplaceable, finite example of an infinite personality

• Love by nature binds itself

• You will be tomorrow where your thoughts about God have taken you today

• We must see, hate, and forsake our sin

• Never let serving God replace knowing God

• God’s building an army not an audience

• Intellectual deception follows moral rejection

• Love and laughter plow hard hearts

• Jesus is our integration point

• Knowledge = responsibility; Responsibility accepted = More Light revealed from God; Responsibility rejected = Guilt

• God’s laws are a description of reality from an infinite perspective

• Disciples are faithful, available, and teachable

• People usually forget what you say, but they will always remember how you treat them

• Your mission field is where your feet are

• Baptism is an outward expression of an inward conversion

• Intrinsic value obligates

• The church is looking for better methods, God is looking for better men

• Thoughts are to the soul what bones are to the body

• Major on the majors, minor on the minors

• The first step towards God is honesty

• If you have a low view of God, you will have a low view of man. If you have a high view of God, you will have a high view of man

• He’s either Lord of all or not at all

• 4 C’s Needed for Real Fellowship: Common understanding, Common unselfishness, Constant Forgiveness, and Commitment

• What God does in you, He wants to do through you

• Minister in the opposite spirit

• Intent is prior to content

• Grief is proportional to intimacy

• Feelings follow right action

• It’s healthy to bow

• When you break a law, you break a heart

• A glass can only spill what it contains

• What does your relaxed mind default to?

• 3 R’s to lasting as a Christian: Real Relationships, Real Responsibility, and Real Devotional Life

• Look where you want to go