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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.

Timothy Keller

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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Aband Agony Betray Do Down Father Greatest History Look Love Make
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Faith Feel Function Primarily
Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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 more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.

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