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You are a totally loved moral failure.

Timothy Keller

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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