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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

Timothy Keller

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Create Earn Jesus Life Religion Say Secular Society
So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Anyone Deed Humanity Less Myself Nothing Superior Swagger Think Undermine
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Believe Bitterness God Right Worry Wrong
Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Christian Guilt Motivate Motivation Other Say Shoes Tend
It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Away Down Impossible Indifferent Jesus Met Offended Real Wonder
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Destroy Fire God Himself Refine Suffering Walk
You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Band Believer Christian Family Friend
It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgive Her Him Impossible Someone Superior
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Afraid Anxious Give God Look Need Say Son
There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Become Believe Hurt Real Relationship Vulnerable
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Created Desire Effort Everything Love Make Someone
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Accept Defensive God Life Most Now Send Trust
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Actually Faith Object Save Strength
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Come God Invite Stay
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Fail Grace More Much Need Remember Save Succeed

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