Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
TIMOTHY KELLERMen, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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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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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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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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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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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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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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