If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLER
…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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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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 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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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