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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.

Timothy Keller

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
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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Become Christ Jesus Like More Suffer
Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Daily Done Feel Least Like Persistently Prater Regularly Resolutely Tenaciously
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Adversity Important Maintain Midst More Nothing Painful Purpose
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Come God Invite Stay
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Failure Go Head Heart Identity Rather Success Work
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
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
…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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Essence Gospel Humility Less More Myself Religious Think
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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Back Become Believe Body Breakable Country Expert God People Someone Suffer
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World
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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Almost Greed Guilty Jesus More People Sex Think Warm
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
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Change Grace Ideas Long never Think
Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Accept Acceptable God Gospel Obey Operate Principle Religion
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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Came Christ Death Died Earth Gospel Jesus Life Live

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