Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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