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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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