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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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 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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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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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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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