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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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