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God’s Passion for His Glory · The Pilgrim

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  SPEAKER_00: If you ask me what inspired me to write this little book is,
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  SPEAKER_00: it was 2019 and I started encountering a dimension of God that I have not known
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  SPEAKER_00: since I became a Christian in 2012.
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  SPEAKER_00: I discovered that God is passionate for his glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: God was really about his glory because one of the things we keep saying when we are
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  SPEAKER_00: in church or when we are talking to our fellow believers,
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  SPEAKER_00: where we see God did this and I have come to give him all the glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what do we mean when we say that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I realized that God does all he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything that God does, he does it for his glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that shaped my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: It changed how I viewed God.
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  SPEAKER_00: It gave me a deeper sense of purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I decided that, okay, let me write little things that I have discovered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me write what I've discovered and shared with people at Godcenteredchristianity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I started writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the more I wrote about God's What God does from predestination,
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  SPEAKER_00: creation to consummation, everything that God does through redemptive history.
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  SPEAKER_00: God does everything for himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is deeply Godcentered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it changed everything about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the more I was writing about it, it became bigger and bigger and bigger.
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  SPEAKER_00: We decided that we are going to make this into a little book and we'll give it out for free.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we did that for several years.
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  SPEAKER_00: We gave this book out for free until this year we relaunched it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today it is now available as paperback and you can get it on Amazon
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  SPEAKER_00: or you can get the ebook on Sela.
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  SPEAKER_00: So get this book if you want to see God in the true light.
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  SPEAKER_00: And probably, yes, Godcenteredchristianity.
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  SPEAKER_00: This book will give you a short introduction into why God exists.
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