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

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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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