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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.

Timothy Keller

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
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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Hand Hold Inspirational Need People Reach Some
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Destroy Fire God Himself Refine Suffering Walk
…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Fear Greatness Lord Love Overwhelmed
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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Brother Exert Instinctively Jesus Limit Ourselves Race
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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Comfort Fear Fully Greatest Know Love Superficial True Love
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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Came Christ Death Died Earth Gospel Jesus Life Live
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Certain God Suffer Unbearable With You
When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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Dependent Evaluation Forget Other Smile
The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Behavior Challenge More Racially Salvation Understand
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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Currency Generosity Life Money One Only Perceive
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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Forgiveness Forgiving God Radical Seen Sin Thought
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Change Grace Ideas Long never Think
After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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After Creation Finish God Jesus Redemption Rest
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Come God Invite Stay

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