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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

Timothy Keller

The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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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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…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 Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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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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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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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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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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