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Following Gifts Isn't Always Easy

Some people have the notion that following your spiritual gifts is spending the days and years of your life doing only those things which come naturally, ...


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Teamwork Toward Holiness

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves--on God's grace and our will to be holy. We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ...


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Discipline and Abundance

Discipline begets abundance. Abundance, unless we use utmost care, destroys discipline. Discipline in its fall pulls down with it abundance.


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Discipline Refines Talent

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.


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No Freedom without Discipline

Freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline. ...


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Capturing the Real Criminal

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and ...


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Running a Ninety-Five-Yard Dash

A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five-yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the ...


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Trying Too Hard

Often we fall short of holiness because we strive so diligently for holiness.


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Happiness Is Our Response

God ... does not lavish his children with a jolly discipleship so that they may swim in spiritual ecstasy between conversion and death. God is a giver, ...


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Living in Freedom

The disciplined person is the person who can do what needs to be done when it needs to be done. The disciplined person is the person who can live in the ...


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