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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

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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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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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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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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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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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