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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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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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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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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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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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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