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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

Timothy Keller

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Come God Invite Stay
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
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
Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Bride Good Groom Jesus Men Unless
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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Back Become Believe Body Breakable Country Expert God People Someone Suffer
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Accept Defensive God Life Most Now Send Trust
Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Christian Guilt Motivate Motivation Other Say Shoes Tend
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
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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Christian Disagree God Idealize might Version Worship Yourself
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Enter Gospel Kingdom Live Only Way
Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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Idol Money Show
Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Answer Came Come Jesus Life Question Tell
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Basic Good Jesus Life Live Morality Most Person Premise Religion Upright Wrong
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Believe Christ Deserve God Jesus Treat
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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Band Believer Christian Family Friend
Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Daily Done Feel Least Like Persistently Prater Regularly Resolutely Tenaciously

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

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