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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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 cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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 not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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