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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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