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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Timothy Keller

The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Creation Escape Jesus Purpose Put Renew Restore Right World
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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Astonished Before Fear Joyful Language Lord Mean Original Sustain Wonderful
Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Emotion Every Prayer Processed Single
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Bible Good Life Live Much Purpose Show
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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
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
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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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Came Christ Death Died Earth Gospel Jesus Life Live
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
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Faith Feel Function Primarily

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