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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

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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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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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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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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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