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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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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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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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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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