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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

Timothy Keller

Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Character Doctrine Grace Perfect Save Sheer Since Strong
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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Access Child Children Glass Kind King Person Water
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World
When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Absolute Good Hatred Love People People Become Political Racism Society Tendency Turn
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
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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Available Away Circumstance Deepest God Joy Person Put Take
The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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Advice Done God Gospel News Reach Rech
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Believe Christ Deserve God Jesus Treat
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Accountability Commitment Everyone Friendship People Run Running Say Way
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 dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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Commit Fall Into Love Matter Say
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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Accept Doe God Grace Leave Love See
Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Despite Faith Feel Living Out Truth
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Actually Faith Object Save Strength
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Believe Christ Dare Flawed Gospel Jesus Ourselves Sinful
Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Accept Christ Dare Jesus Love More Same Time Yet

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