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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

Timothy Keller

If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Changing Dead Everything Jesus Life Rose Said Teach Worry
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
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 gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Believe Christ Dare Flawed Gospel Jesus Ourselves Sinful
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
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Design Dream Faithful Flourish Love Service Supremely
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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God Grace Hard Humility Kind Muster Need Nothing Spiritual Want
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Church Identity Itself Justice Poetic
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Beautiful Christianity God Obey Religion Useful
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
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
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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Call People Promise Something Success Think Time
Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Anyone Character Down Gospel Look Perfect Strong Understand
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Create Earn Jesus Life Religion Say Secular Society
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Accountability Commitment Everyone Friendship People Run Running Say Way

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