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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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