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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

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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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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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