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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

Timothy Keller

This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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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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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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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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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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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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