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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

Timothy Keller

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
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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Christ Future Give Giving Handle Hope Now Only Resurrection Right Scar
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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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Forgiveness Forgiving God Radical Seen Sin Thought
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Dust Gospel Heaven Humble Time Very
Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Emotion Every Prayer Processed Single
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Character Community Converse Eat Mainly Person Play Primarily Social Strap Study
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Basic Good Jesus Life Live Morality Most Person Premise Religion Upright Wrong
So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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