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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 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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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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