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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.

Timothy Keller

Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Attach Comit Faith Faithful Love
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 news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Come God However Look Say Wash
We 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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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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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
Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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