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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

Timothy Keller

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Believe Experience Future Present Shape Ultimate
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Accuse Cause Look Our Satan Savior Sin
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Believe Christ Deserve God Jesus Treat
The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Access Dull God History Miss Nobody Paid Resurrection Right Stamp
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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Changing Dead Everything Jesus Life Rose Said Teach Worry
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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Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Faith Feel Function Primarily
This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Anyone Deed Humanity Less Myself Nothing Superior Swagger Think Undermine
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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Actually Christian Courage Deep Experience Face Hope Pain Provide Reason Resources Suffer
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Fear Greatness Lord Love Overwhelmed
Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Daily Done Feel Least Like Persistently Prater Regularly Resolutely Tenaciously
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Dust Gospel Heaven Humble Time Very
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Actual Faith Grace Need Object Prerequisite Receiving Save
Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Answer Came Come Jesus Life Question Tell
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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Christian Guilt Motivate Motivation Other Say Shoes Tend

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

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