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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.

Timothy Keller

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
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 a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Available Away Circumstance Deepest God Joy Person Put Take
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Justified Justify Living Yourself
The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Change Done Jesus Key Order Question
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Destroy Fire God Himself Refine Suffering Walk
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Actual Faith Grace Need Object Prerequisite Receiving Save
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
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Certain God Suffer Unbearable With You
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
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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Access Child Children Glass Kind King Person Water
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Christianity Heart Humble Lying Religious Truth
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
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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Assurance Christian God Great Heart Much Set Unshakably
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Done Jesus Make Proud Religion
The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Due Joy Lack Life Mission

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