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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

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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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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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