Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
TIMOTHY KELLER
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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 Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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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.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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