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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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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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