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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

Timothy Keller

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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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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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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…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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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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