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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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