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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

Timothy Keller

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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Advice Done God Gospel News Reach Rech
…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
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Actually Christian Courage Deep Experience Face Hope Pain Provide Reason Resources Suffer
…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Essence Gospel Humility Less More Myself Religious Think
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Fear Greatness Lord Love Overwhelmed
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Adversity Important Maintain Midst More Nothing Painful Purpose
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
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
Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Belief Disagree People Tolerance Treat
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Accountability Commitment Everyone Friendship People Run Running Say Way
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
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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Become Believe Hurt Real Relationship Vulnerable
We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Brother Exert Instinctively Jesus Limit Ourselves Race
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
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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Accept Doe God Grace Leave Love See
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

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