Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
TIMOTHY KELLER
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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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 the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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