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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

Judah Smith

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.
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Abandonment God InterAction Kindness Need People Right
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
You didnt access love, love accessed you!
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Deep Love Perspective Yourself
The common denominator is that we all need help.
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Help Kindness Need Requirement
What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.
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Community Modeling Opportunity
Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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Crazy God Life Time Twist
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
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
Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
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Concept Goodness Opinion People Shape Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.
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Goodness Grace Ourselves True
A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Father Follow Myself Way
Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
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Person Personally Private Public
Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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God Kill People Religious Sin
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Big Estimation God Sin
Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
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Bad Rule Save
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
Responsibility is good for your soul.
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Goodness Responsibility Soul Yourself
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Care Himself Scandal
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
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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Choice Difficult Hope Situation Trap

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