When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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