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Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

Francis Chan

Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
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God Himself Love Yourself
When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God’s command to always rejoice.
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Command Consumption Family Important Life Problem Rejoice
Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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Commitment God Ourselves Religious
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
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Leaving Similar True
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church’s crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
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Identity Lost Ourselves Scripture World
We have got to make disciples. Fun nights and pizza nights are not going to sustain us.
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Discipline Night Ourselves
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
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Desire Fight God Order Simplicity Yourself
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
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Definition God Love Ourselves Standard
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Allow God Hard Joy Life Peace World Yourself
Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.
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Better Planning Trust Yourself
Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
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Change God Live Relationship Yourself
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.
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Faith God Himself Hope Promise True
Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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God Himself Life Story
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
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Attention Close God Growth Ourselves Pursuit
Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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God Himself Try
A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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Addiction God Relationship Simplicity Team
God’s presence is all that matters.
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God Matter Presence
God never breaks His promises.
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Break God Himself Promise
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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Follow Heart Love Religious World Yourself
The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
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God Heaven Message Yourself
Worry implies that we don’t quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives.
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Big Enough God Live Ourselves Quite Trust Worry
In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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Consistent Distraction God Himself Intention Ourselves Reminder World
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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Answer Love Myself Prayer
Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Discipline Excuse Follow God
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.
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Fertilizer Growth Help Togetherness

Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.

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