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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Timothy Keller

Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Accept Dare Hope Imagine More Sinful
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Pray Proper Still Suffer
Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Become Christ Like Suffer
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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