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

Timothy Keller

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Created Desire Effort Everything Love Make Someone
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
We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Come God However Look Say Wash
When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Absolute Good Hatred Love People People Become Political Racism Society Tendency Turn
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Believe Christ Jesus Shape Today Tomorrow
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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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
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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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Accept Christ Dare Jesus Love More Same Time Yet
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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Become Believe Hurt Real Relationship Vulnerable
When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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Dependent Evaluation Forget Other Smile
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Pray Proper Still Suffer
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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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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