What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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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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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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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