The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERFaith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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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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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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