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I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Enough Heart Information
If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.
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Compelled Feel Identity
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Favor Favors God Walk
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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Grace Judgment Longing
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Broken Grace People
Grace doesn’t lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
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Grace Kindness Remedy
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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Enjoy Friendly Theological
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Christian Effort Year
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Free God Jesus Someone
The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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Free Happy People Think
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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Get Better Need Self
I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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Miserable Source Validation
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
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Church People Thinking
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

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