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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Timothy Keller

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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Creation Escape Jesus Purpose Put Renew Restore Right World
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Accept Defensive God Life Most Now Send Trust
Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Broke Christian God Heart Heartbreak Legislation Remorse Repentance Rule Say
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Destructive Life Now Right Sin
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
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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Become Christ Jesus Like More Suffer
I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Circumstance Go Jesus Judging Love
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Fear Greatness Lord Love Overwhelmed
The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Due Joy Lack Life Mission
Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Bride Good Groom Jesus Men Unless
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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Besides Bible Building Every Identity Jesus One Problem Real Say Something
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Base Bases Fear Hate Joy Make Ourselves Repentance Sin
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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Changing Dead Everything Jesus Life Rose Said Teach Worry
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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Band Believer Christian Family Friend
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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Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
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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Away Get Jesus Reason Rolled Stop Tomb

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