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We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Judah Smith

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.
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God Impossible Inspirational Love Person Religious
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
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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Choice Difficult Hope Situation Trap
Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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Clear Himself Love Sin
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
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Big Estimation God Sin
Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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God Kill People Religious Sin
Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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Crazy God Life Time Twist
Responsibility is good for your soul.
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Goodness Responsibility Soul Yourself
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
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God Level Love Rate Share Sin System
Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
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God Power Sin Struggle Willing Yourself
Grace is God-given power to live differently.
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Different God Grace Live
When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you – it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.
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Embrace Eyes Grace Motivational Right Sin
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
Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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Appeal God Sin Yourself
Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
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Bad Rule Save
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
We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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God Himself Judgement
You didnt access love, love accessed you!
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Deep Love Perspective Yourself
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
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
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Care Himself Scandal
It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.
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Goodness Grace Ourselves True
A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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Change God Inspirational Moments
Indifference was our greatest enemy.
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Difference Enemy Greatness Ourselves
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

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