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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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