Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
TIMOTHY KELLER
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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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 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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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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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…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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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