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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Timothy Keller

Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Anyone Character Down Gospel Look Perfect Strong Understand
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Destructive Life Now Right Sin
The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Behavior Challenge More Racially Salvation Understand
Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Find Salvation Significance
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Justified Justify Living Yourself
It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Away Down Impossible Indifferent Jesus Met Offended Real Wonder
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
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
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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Changing Dead Everything Jesus Life Rose Said Teach Worry
Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Despite Faith Feel Living Out Truth
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 without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Affirm Denial Flaw Giving Keep Love Marriage Sentimentality Support Truth
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Base Bases Fear Hate Joy Make Ourselves Repentance Sin
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
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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Call People Promise Something Success Think Time
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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