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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.

Judah Smith

Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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Appeal God Sin Yourself
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Big Estimation God Sin
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
A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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Change God Inspirational Moments
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
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
A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Father Follow Myself Way
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Care Himself Scandal
If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
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Definition Identity Lost Love Unique
What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.
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Community Modeling Opportunity
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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Choice Difficult Hope Situation Trap
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’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.
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God Impossible Inspirational Love Person Religious
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
Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
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Person Personally Private Public
Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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Cheap Himself Pay Sacrifice Try
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
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
We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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God Himself Judgement
Responsibility is good for your soul.
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Goodness Responsibility Soul Yourself
Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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God Kill People Religious Sin
You didnt access love, love accessed you!
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Deep Love Perspective Yourself
Indifference was our greatest enemy.
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Difference Enemy Greatness Ourselves
Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.
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Brain Enemy Grace Logic Time Worst
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
Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
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Follow Force Grace Himself Need Rule
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

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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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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