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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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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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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 key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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