Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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