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

Timothy Keller

The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Better Circumstance Gospel Life Promise
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Ability Ask Beyond Happy Human Main Make Misdentify People Problem Save Thing
If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Frown God Inconsequential Other Smile
This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Anyone Deed Humanity Less Myself Nothing Superior Swagger Think Undermine
You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Band Believer Christian Family Friend
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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Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Advice Done Good New News Report
The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Access Dull God History Miss Nobody Paid Resurrection Right Stamp
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
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Believe Christ Jesus Shape Today Tomorrow
No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Aband Agony Betray Do Down Father Greatest History Look Love Make
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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Appreciate Deserve God Grace Offer People Relentlessly Save Seek
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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Bais Bend God Into Mine Mold Prayer Purpose
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
The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Due Joy Lack Life Mission

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

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