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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’

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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 are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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