There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
TIMOTHY KELLERSince they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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