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John Piper summarizes this in the title of his book on fasting, A Hunger for God.[24] Fasting is when we hunger for God—for a fresh encounter with God, for God to answer a prayer, for God to save someone, for God to work powerfully in our church, for God to guide us or protect us—more than we hunger for the food God made us to live on.

First, ethnic and racial groups, in and of themselves, are amoral. Second, people prefer to worship in their own cultural groups. Third, denominations and congregations that use the “homogenous units principle,” which means that volunteer organizations function best when composed of just one cultural group, grow and are more vital.

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. [Philippians 1:9–11]

There are, however, texts where God commands Israel to destroy their enemies (Deut. 7:2; 13:15; Josh. 6:21). We also have imprecatory psalms that plead with God to mete out judgment on the wicked (e.g., Pss. 5; 17; 28; 35; 40; 137) and a few texts that express hatred for God’s enemies (Deut. 32:41; 33:11). One text that seems to contradict Jesus’s

In some sense, we all share David’s guilt, Thomas’s doubt, and Peter’s denial (1 Cor. 10:13).

Pastor, here is a ministerial secret not often publicized: sometimes things that shrink are getting healthier. So here we are: totally dependent. In ruins. Vulnerable. But hopeful. A remnant will always remain.

Our minds, hearts, and behaviors should be progressively changed as we sit under the authority of God’s Word.

Godly sorrow hates the sin itself. Godly sorrow feels the horror of disobedience and weeps over the reality of a heart that chose transgression over faithfulness.