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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.

Timothy Keller

The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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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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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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 is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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