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Don’t Waste Your Life
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
God is the Gospel
A Hunger for God
Let the Nations Be Glad!
The Pleasures of God
Reading the Bible Supernaturally
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
Spectacular Sins
A Sweet and Bitter Providence
What Jesus Demands from the World
When I Don’t Desire God
Why I Love the Apostle Paul

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1. “1918 Pandemic (H1N1 Virus),” updated March

20, 2019, centers for Disease Control and Preven
tion, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/
1918-pandemic-h 1n 1.html.
2. Henry Martyn, Journals and Letters of Henry
Martyn (New York: Protestant Episcopal Society,
1861), 460.
3. Martyn, Journals and Letters, 210.
4. John Lennon, “Imagine,” produced by John
Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Phil Spector, Abbey Road,
London, 1971.
5. C. S. Lewis, “The weight of Glory,” in The Weight
of Glory and Other Address (1949; repr., New York:
Harper, 2009), 26.
6. Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Christianity: How
the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest
Religion (New York: Harper, 2011), 113.
7. Stark, Triumph of Christianity, 115.
8. Stark, Triumph of Christianity, 112.
9. Stark, Triumph of Christianity, 116.
10. Stark, Triumph of Christianity, 117.
11. Stephen Neill, A History of Christian Missions, 2nd
ed. (New York: Penguin, 1986), 37-38.
12. Herbert Schlossberg, Called to Suffer, Called to
Triumph (Portland, OR: Multnomah, 1990), 230.

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8:20-32......................43 36:32............................43
10:1-20......................43 42:2..............................42
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20:12..........................30 19:1..............................25
19:9.......................20,104
32:39..........................45 19:10............................21
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119:103 .....................26 4:35................................42
119:152.....................20
119:160 ....................27
2:10................................43
135:6 ........................42
147:5....................21,48 4:6..................................43
147:8 ........................43 4:7....................................43
147:16 ......................43
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3:5..............................59 5......................................96
21:1............................43 5:11-12...........................96
28:26..........................59 5:13-14...........................96
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28:29..........................21 10:37..............................86
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15:14..............................23
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1:11............................32 14:31..............................32
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13:5............................84 12:23..............................74
13:16..........................69 17:25..............................35
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