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Lawrence J. "Larry" Crabb, Jr. is a Christian counselor, author, Bible teacher and seminar speaker. Crabb has written best-selling books and is the founder and director of New Way Ministries. He serves as a Spiritual Director for the American Association of Christian Counselors and since 1996 has been the Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence of Colorado Christian University.

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Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness. . . . I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.

Adopt, Becoming, Finding Happiness, Goal, Priorities, Problems

The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.

Commitment, Enjoy, Fashion, Husband, Meaningfulness, Seize

Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

Centering, Forms, Prayer, Unique

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

Ambassador, Ambassadors, Cultivate, Needs, Understanding

I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically. . . I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.

Elements, Prayer, Style, Ways

In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize self-protective patterns of relating as sinful violations of love until we face the disappointment in our soul we’re determined never to experience again.

Disappointment, Order, Repent, Self, Violate, Wont

We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live.

Approach, Different, Make, Problem, Way To Live, Work

The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.

Christ, Goal, Love, Place, Way

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

Adventure, Christ, Following Christ, Frustration, Planned, Stroll

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Blessing, Jesus, Offering, Stop, Think, Thinking

A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!

Commitment, Dog, Hungry, Meal, Needs, Two

We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.

Clean, Feels, Good, Love, Rich, Whole

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.

Commitment, Deep, Life Changing, Look, Repentance, Self

There’s never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.

Blessing, Giving, God, Right, Thinking, Thinks

The root of all our personal and emotional difficulties is a lack of togetherness. . . I therefore believe that the surest route to overcoming problems and becoming the people we were meant to be is reconnecting with God and with our community.

Believe, Emotional, Overcoming, Roots, Route, Surest

God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

Alive, Aware, Children, Dream, Nothing, Song

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

Enough, Passionate, Problem, Things

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

Character, Growth, Immediate, Involves, Maturity, Two

When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened. . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.

Burdened, Community, Feels, Passion, Quiet, Spiritual

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

Already, Echoes, Give, Giving, Leadership, Power

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