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You can't blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren't working. So we're complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren't working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world.
Tony Evans
You
Bible
Blame
World
Dark
Darkness
Light
Complaining
Says
About
Being
Working
Things
Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.
Tony Evans
Life
Hope
God
You
Comeback
Will
Power
Back
Stay
Seem
Likely
Course
Reverse
Discover
Up
Wall
Irreversible
Depleted
Against
Your
If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.
Tony Evans
Life
You
Path
Will
One Thing
Easy
Count
Always
Your
Thing
Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.
Tony Evans
Love
Change
Peace
Nation
Unity
Rallying
Our
Catalyst
Cry
Nonviolence
Should
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
Tony Evans
Government
You
Racism
Problem
Three
First
Skin
Believe
Hundred
Hundred Years
See
Federal
Federal Government
Take
Sin
Involvement
Court
Still
Years
Foremost
Fixed
Get
Decisions
Marches
Right
Slavery
Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.
Tony Evans
Corruption
Racism
Result
Evil
Nation
Gone
Others
Our
Must
Fingers
Only
Directly
Pointing
Pointing Fingers
Troubles
Never
Merely
Days
Also
Ineffective
Although
Fix
May
Ills
Christians
There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.
Tony Evans
God
Disagree
Every
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Wrong
Him
Answer
Answers
Question
Two
Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control.
Tony Evans
Struggle
World
Own
Control
Living
Other
Our
Circumstances
Unavoidable
Outside
Part
Sin
Failures
Occasional
Due
Fallen
Setbacks
God has a kingdom. It's made up of citizens: some black, some white, some red, yellow, Spanish backgrounds. His intention was never that the individual uniqueness would cause them to lose sight of the flag flying over them - the flag of the cross.
Tony Evans
God
Cause
Black
Made
Lose
White
Backgrounds
Flying
Sight
Citizens
Would
Some
Kingdom
Cross
Individual
Never
Red
Over
His
Yellow
Up
Flag
Intention
Spanish
Them
Uniqueness
God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you.
Tony Evans
God
You
People
Made
Long
Submit
Other
Relate
He
How
Than
Different
Anything
Asking
Who
As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.
Tony Evans
Bible
Confused
Our
Tend
Never
Doctrine
Were
Mixed
Mixing
Truths
Get
Often
Meant
Meant To Be
Start
Christians
We need a right view of the cross. It is both a historical event that can take us to Heaven and a current event that can bring Heaven to bear on Earth.
Tony Evans
Earth
Cross
Bear
Both
Take
Historical
Current
Heaven
Us
View
Event
Right
Bring
Need
We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.
Tony Evans
God
Church
Nation
One Nation
Never
Around
Get
Being
Even
In order to impact our society, we need to first model unity in the church.
Tony Evans
Church
First
Society
Unity
Our
Impact
Model
Order
Need
Football is oneness in action. When played well, it is unity on display. Players come from different races and different backgrounds. However, when they get on the field, they harmonize their differences toward a common goal.
Tony Evans
Differences
Field
Action
Unity
Harmonize
Backgrounds
Oneness
Football
Toward
Come
Well
However
Goal
Get
Common
Different
Common Goal
Different Backgrounds
Races
Display
Played
Players
Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.
Tony Evans
God
Seriously
Church
Will
Transformation
Society
Our
Definition
See
Having
Take
Until
Just
Stop
Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house.
Tony Evans
God
Eyes
Political
Election
First
Become
National
White
White House
Every
Our
About
House
Concern
Returns
His
Years
America
Same
Any
Going
Happen
Happening
Season
Four
Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.
Tony Evans
God
Prayer
Backstage
Him
Audience
Pass
Personal
I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus.
Tony Evans
Life
Family
Me
Broken
My Life
Year
Changed
Kids
City
Could
Casualty
Like
Around
Baltimore
Up
Forever
Ended
Turned
Many
Dad
Inner
Jesus
Inner City
I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.
Tony Evans
Time
Me
Prayer
Preach
Spend
Easier
Must
About
Lot
Pastor
Than
Confess
Same
Engaged
Amount
Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.
Tony Evans
Problem
Ministry
Never-Ending
Because
Real
Real Problem
Burnout
Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry.
Tony Evans
You
Church
Out
Ministry
Him
Another
Go
Pastor
Being
Anything
Burnt
Which
Next
Next Level
Therefore
Connects
Believers
Keeps
Level
We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society.
Tony Evans
God
Losing
Will
Become
Understanding
National
Society
Heritage
Relationships
Our
Rule
More
Without
Personal
Closer
Ordered
Unified
Need
The history of our country has been driven by a Judeo-Christian worldview, and so that has dominated the landscape. So it's important that we recognize the lordship of Jesus Christ without apology in our emphasis on prayer.
Tony Evans
Prayer
History
Christ
Worldview
Country
Important
Our
Recognize
Has-Been
Driven
Emphasis
Without
Lordship
Been
Dominated
The History Of
Landscape
Apology
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Our God is a great coach, and he's got a great playbook.
Tony Evans
God
Great
Our
He
Got
Coach
God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant.
Tony Evans
God
World
Those
Responsibilities
Another
Covenant
Specific
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