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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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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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 Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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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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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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