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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

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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Become Christ Jesus Like More Suffer
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Believe Christ Jesus Shape Today Tomorrow
It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgive Her Him Impossible Someone Superior
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
Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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Christ Future Give Giving Handle Hope Now Only Resurrection Right Scar
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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Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
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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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World
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
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 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
Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Christian Do Gospel Much Need
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Infallible Integrity Jesus Life Prayer Private Spiritual Test
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
We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Danger Free Grasp Jesus Light Regularly Sin View
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray

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