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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

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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
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
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
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Advice Christian Heart
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
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Backyards First Tennis
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
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
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
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
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Broken Grace People
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Free God Jesus Someone
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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Emotion Frustrat Men People
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
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.

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