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I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits.
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Jen Wilkin
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For years I viewed my interaction with the Bible as a debit account: I had a need, so I went to the Bible to withdraw an answer. But we do much better to view our interaction with the Bible as a savings account: I stretch my understanding daily, I deposit what I glean, and I patiently wait for it to accumulate in value, knowing that one day I will need to draw on it.
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Jen Wilkin (Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds)
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No longer can we parse our fellow humans into the categories of ‘lovable’ and ‘unlovable.’ If love is an act of the will — not motivated by need, not measuring worth, not requiring reciprocity — then there is no such category as ‘unlovable.
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Jen Wilkin (In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character)
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When women grow increasingly lax in their pursuit of Bible literacy, everyone in their circle of influence is affected. Rather than acting as salt and light, we become bland contributions to the environment we inhabit and shape, indistinguishable from those who have never been changed by the gospel. Home, church, community, and country desperately need the influence of women who know why they believe what they believe, grounded in the Word of God. They desperately need the influence of women who love deeply and actively the God proclaimed in the Bible.
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Jen Wilkin
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Your love for others is the overflow of your love for God. Your love for God will increase as you learn to know him better. But never lost sight that your influence will be noticed in how you use your heart, not your head. Bible literacy that does not transform is a chasing after the wind. Christians will be known by our love, not our knowledge. We will not be known by just any kind of love - we will be known for the kind of love the Father has shown to us and we in turn show to others.
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Jen Wilkin (Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds)
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Forgiving lavishly does not mean that we continue to place ourselves in harm's way. The Bible takes great pains to address the dangers of keeping company with those who perpetually harm others. Those who learn nothing from their past mistakes are termed fools. While we may forgive the fool for hurting us, we do not give the fool unlimited opportunity to hurt us again. To do so would be to act foolishly ourselves. When Jesus extends mercy in the Gospels, he always does so with an implicit or explicit, "Go and sin no more." When our offender persists in sinning against us, we are wise to put boundaries in place. Doing so is itself an act of mercy toward the offender. By limiting his opportunity to sin against us, we spare him further guilt before God. Mercy never requires submission to abuse, whether spiritual, verbal, emotional, or physical.
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Jen Wilkin (In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character)
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I am a firm believer that the challenges we endure in life evolve us to be the peole we become. I have learned that life is what you make of it, what you do is important, work shouldn't become your life, and you should enjoy life as God hands it to you.
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Vickie L. Peach Wilkins (If Horses Could Talk: Tails of Two Mustangs)
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Captain Bailey’s face went rigid as he stepped aside, revealing another bicorne-crowned officer just behind him.
The gentleman joined their circle, probing Milly with his gaze. He was handsome, more so than the other two. The upward tilt of his chin, confident set to his shoulders, and seductive smile lifting one corner of his mouth sent a wave of disquiet through her middle.
She’d met this sort before.
The silver tassels on his epaulettes glimmered in the firelight and spoke of power, and she lowered her eyes, pointedly aware she didn’t belong here, surrounded by such important men, addressing them as if anything she said were worthy of their consideration. She sucked in a deliberate breath and drew back ever so slightly.
Captain Bailey matched her move and slipped a hand to the back of her elbow. She suspected the touch was meant to be one of support. Instead, she felt trapped.
“Miss Milly Wilkins, may I present Captain Jameson Collins?” Captain Bailey’s voice was clipped, and Milly feared he was beginning to see through the ruse.
The sound of rattling chains stemmed from the shadows and her eyes darted toward it. Any minute these officers would realize she should be shackled as well. Could they see through the shadows of her hood to the pulse pounding in her neck?
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April W. Gardner (Beneath the Blackberry Moon: The Ebony Cloak (Creek Country Saga #3))
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The well-known proverb “Train up a child in the way that he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it” does not promise that Christian parenting will produce Christian children. Rather, it states the general, wise principle that a godly parent must train her children in the way of godliness.
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Jen Wilkin (Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds)
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Judging from citations found in early Christian writers, Matthew was the most widely read and frequently used of the four Gospels in the formative years of the church. There are many reasons for its popularity, but one of the primary reasons why this Gospel is so important is because of its verification that Jesus is recognized as the long-awaited Messiah, the prophesied fulfillment of God’s promise of true peace, deliverance, salvation, and new life in the kingdom of God for all of humanity, both Jew and Gentile.
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Michael Wilkins (The Gospels and Acts (The Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible Book 1))
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In effect, the Evangelist is saying to the Roman world: Caesar is neither the beginning of the gospel (or good news) for the world, nor God’s son; Messiah Jesus is. As such, Mark’s opening words directly challenge the Roman emperor cult (see comments on Mark 15:39 below) and offer a powerful apologetic in support of the Christian movement and its faith in Jesus.
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Michael Wilkins (The Gospels and Acts (The Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible Book 1))
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The opponents see Stephen’s message as blasphemy because they say he demeans God’s temple and the law. The following speech by Stephen shows he is not guilty of blasphemy, but that he declares that God is bigger than the temple, so the temple is not everything. This break from popular conceptions accounts for much of the animosity the Jewish leaders showed toward the early Christians.
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Michael Wilkins (The Gospels and Acts (The Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible Book 1))
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Critics often style early Christians as anti-Semitic, but it was not the intent of early Christian believers to separate from Judaism or degrade Jews. They went into the synagogues seeking to convince Jews that Jesus was the Messiah, the promised one of Israel. The church became distinct sociologically when they were forced out of the synagogues and had to form their own communities. As these messages to Jews in the book of Acts show, the argument in the synagogue was that if one was a good Jew and believed God’s promises, then one would embrace Jesus as the promised Messiah and become complete as a Jew.
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Michael Wilkins (The Gospels and Acts (The Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible Book 1))
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your heart, that you are true disciples of Jesus? Please raise your hand.” Wilkins says that people are genuinely confused as to what they should do. Most do not raise their hand. Some put it up hesitantly and then quickly pull it down. Then Wilkins proceeds to a second question: “How many of you can say, in the humble confidence of your heart, that you are convinced that you are a true Christian? Please raise your hand.” Immediately most hands go up without hesitation.[10]
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Greg Ogden (Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time)
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My chief concern is to try to be a humble, earnest Christian.
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Steve Wilkins (Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee (Leaders in Action))
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Our primary problem as Christian women is not that we lack self-worth, not that we lack a sense of significance. It’s that we lack awe.
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Jen Wilkin (None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us (and Why That's a Good Thing))
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Nosso registro de nascimento anuncia que somos limitados. Nossas limitações foram planejadas. Gastarmos o restante de nossas vidas negando ou aceitando essa verdade faz toda a diferença na forma como amamos a Deus e os outros.
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Jen Wilkin (Incomparavel: 10 maneiras em que Deus é diferente de nós (e por que isso é algo bom))
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If our reading of the Bible focuses our eyes on anyone other than God, we have gotten backwards the transformation process.
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Jen Wilkin (Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds)