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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.

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What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.
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Compassionate Department Division Heart Tender
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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Age Appearance Goodness Temptation
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
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acknowledgment Believe Day Greatness Himself Life Simplicity Style World
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Encounter exchange Life
Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only NOW that we are in the presence of God.
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Day Evil Goodness Ourselves Past Presence
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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Amazing Battle Goodness Grace Lust Lying Ourselves Stop Victory
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
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Choice Dreams Failure God Sin
In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
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Love Service Wound
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
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God Identity Illusion Oneself Radical True
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!
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Glory Heart Human Love Trust
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God’s mercy!
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God Goodness Grace Mercy Scripture
We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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Astonish Call God Goodness Holy Moments Name Stand Stunning
Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.
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Acceptance Amazing God Grace Spiritual Togetherness Weakness
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
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Encouragement Evil Failure Forever Grace Sorrow Suffering
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Be Yourself God Love Original
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
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Darkness Existence Imperfection Light Man True Woman

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.

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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.’ ‘What are you complaining about?’ said God. ‘They won’t let Me in either.

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