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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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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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