The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
TIMOTHY KELLERTo discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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