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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.

Timothy Keller

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Fail Grace More Much Need Remember Save Succeed
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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All Cause God Human Problem Separation Symptom Ultimate
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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Away Get Jesus Reason Rolled Stop Tomb
It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgive Her Him Impossible Someone Superior
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
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Absorb Always Come Cost Forgiveness Grant One Retaliate
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Believe Bitterness God Right Worry Wrong
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Create Earn Jesus Life Religion Say Secular Society
When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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Get God Know Right Say Suppose Way Worry
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Justified Justify Living Yourself
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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Christian Disagree God Idealize might Version Worship Yourself
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Accuse Cause Look Our Satan Savior Sin
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
…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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Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
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

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