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It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

Judah Smith

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
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Earth Face Issues People Reality Writing
Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.
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Depend Ourselves Performance Present Right
Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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Cheap Himself Pay Sacrifice Try
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Care Himself Scandal
If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.
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God Himself People Reason Reveal Thinking
The common denominator is that we all need help.
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Help Kindness Need Requirement
A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Father Follow Myself Way
Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
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Bad Rule Save
Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
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Person Personally Private Public
A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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Change God Inspirational Moments
What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn’t matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.
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Change Future Ourselves Present Transformation
Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.
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Brain Enemy Grace Logic Time Worst
Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.
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God Image Life People Style Understand Willing
If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
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Definition Identity Lost Love Unique
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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Choice Difficult Hope Situation Trap
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Big Estimation God Sin
It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.
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Goodness Grace Ourselves True
Grace is God-given power to live differently.
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Different God Grace Live
Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.
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Impurity Religious Swear Thinking
I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.
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Children Father Myself Need Run
Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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God Kill People Religious Sin
Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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Appeal God Sin Yourself
You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.
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Friendship Goodness Honesty Yourself
It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.
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Definition Himself Interest Level People Understand
It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
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Essential Example Live Visible
God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.
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Affirmation Goal God Himself Hurry Love Priority Protection
Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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Crazy God Life Time Twist

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