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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.

Brennan Manning

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.
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Compassionate Competition Culture Journey Key Ourselves Purpose Success
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.
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Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil Our hope is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.
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Evil Freedom Hope Idea Ourselves Pain Reality Success Suffering
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
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Control Coward Family Love Obedience Person Training
If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.
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Believe Heart Love Lying Message Ourselves Rejection
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
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Degree God Himself Love Trust Yourself
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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That which is denied cannot be healed.
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Acceptance Deny
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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Astonish Call God Goodness Holy Moments Name Stand Stunning
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
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Desert Experience God Kind Love Personal
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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Choice Dreams Failure God Sin
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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Amazing Battle Goodness Grace Lust Lying Ourselves Stop Victory
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.
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Honesty Impossible Insult Man Personal True Virtual Woman
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
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Day Medal Ourselves Scars Search
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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Attention Be Yourself People Tragedy
Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
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Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ” is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.

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