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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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 prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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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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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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