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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

Timothy Keller

Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Christian Guilt Motivate Motivation Other Say Shoes Tend
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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Danger Free Grasp Jesus Light Regularly Sin View
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Created Desire Effort Everything Love Make Someone
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Center Else God Life Something
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
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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Call People Promise Something Success Think Time
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
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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Change Done Jesus Key Order Question
Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Christian Do Gospel Much Need
…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
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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All Cause God Human Problem Separation Symptom Ultimate
Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Character Doctrine Grace Perfect Save Sheer Since Strong
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Enter Gospel Kingdom Live Only Way
The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Access Dull God History Miss Nobody Paid Resurrection Right Stamp
Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Accept Accepted Bible Different Every Gospel Page Religion Show Utterly

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