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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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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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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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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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