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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.

Timothy Keller

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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Affirm Denial Flaw Giving Keep Love Marriage Sentimentality Support Truth
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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Aband Agony Betray Do Down Father Greatest History Look Love Make
When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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Dependent Evaluation Forget Other Smile
We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Come God However Look Say Wash
…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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Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Absorb Always Come Cost Forgiveness Grant One Retaliate
So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Church Identity Itself Justice Poetic
Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Become Crosses God Happiness Happy Holy Love Make Mean Tend
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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Afraid Anxious Give God Look Need Say Son
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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Anything Difficulty Fortifies Liberate Need Pretense Righteousness Self
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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Creation Escape Jesus Purpose Put Renew Restore Right World
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Believe Christ Dare Flawed Gospel Jesus Ourselves Sinful
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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Able Against Bible Break Jesus Christ Overcome Purpose Save Sin
I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Circumstance Go Jesus Judging Love
Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Accept Christ Dare Jesus Love More Same Time Yet

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