A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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 Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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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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