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What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel? John Wycliffe

Life World Walls Christ Preach All The World Spirit Priests Since Gospel Within Go His Falsehood Close Stone Cursed Themselves Apostles

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better. John Wycliffe

Truth Faith Better Church Sense Christian Latin Evident More Only True Contained Doctrine Also Known Becomes True Sense Itself Common Scriptures Certain Should Therefore Christian Faith Tongue

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ. John Wycliffe

Love Man Natural Charity Law Christ Every Neighbour Must Abhors Brother Civil He Bound Instinct Himself Lord Impose His Any To Love Therefore Servant Servants Every Man Slavery

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him. John Wycliffe

God Knowledge Man Church Power Bishop Possesses Ministry Him Himself Although Exercise His Existence Traditions According Authority Hands Where Order Laid Requisite Received Appointed Consequently

The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread. John Wycliffe

Words Christ Virtue Does Becoming Cease Bread While Body

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God You Will Bear Call Commission Received

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Success Failure Will Discouraged Elated

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Myself You Speak Seem Then Warn Much Warning Whom Rebuke

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Work God Beginning He Also End Yes Your

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God You Cowardice Spirit Give Did

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God You Despair Gave Spirit

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized. Jurgen Moltmann

Capitalism Racism Men Long Own Way Misery Develop Longer Attitudes Institutionalized Causes Been Quietly Inhuman Found Inner

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else. Jurgen Moltmann

Man Change Illusion Nothing Else Circumstance Circumstances Though Only Renewal Without Materialist Were His Social Product Inner External

Faith is never identical with piety. Karl Barth

Faith Never Identical Piety

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. Kevin DeYoung

Forgiveness Daily Prayer Evil Assumes Would Would-Be Temptation Delivered Lord Occurrence Praying Led Might Asking Jesus

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time. Kevin DeYoung

God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do that, I'm being unfaithful and sinful. Kevin DeYoung

Love God Family Me Discipline Christ Wife Church Tells Sinful Provide Unfaithful Being Children Loves Teach Need

Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something of their load and it's weighing you down a little bit. Kevin DeYoung

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes. Kevin DeYoung

God Eyes Guilty Righteous Though Sinners Justification Declaration

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Kevin DeYoung

People Immorality Sexual See About Ten Ten Commandments Directly Struggling Recurring Leads New Most Talked Concerns Sort Frequently Testament Issues Commandments Sins Pastor New Testament Vices Breaking Us Associated

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