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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

Timothy Keller

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Actual Faith Grace Need Object Prerequisite Receiving Save
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Dust Gospel Heaven Humble Time Very
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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Advice Done God Gospel News Reach Rech
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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Advice Done Good New News Report
Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Become Christ Like Suffer
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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Failure Go Head Heart Identity Rather Success Work
When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Attractive Cross Down Give Jesus Look Myself Think
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Believe Bitterness God Right Worry Wrong
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Infallible Integrity Jesus Life Prayer Private Spiritual Test
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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Aband Agony Betray Do Down Father Greatest History Look Love Make
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Absorb Always Come Cost Forgiveness Grant One Retaliate
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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Anything Difficulty Fortifies Liberate Need Pretense Righteousness Self
Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Become Crosses God Happiness Happy Holy Love Make Mean Tend
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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Commit Fall Into Love Matter Say
The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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Away Get Jesus Reason Rolled Stop Tomb
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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Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time

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