Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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