Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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