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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”

Timothy Keller

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Church Identity Itself Justice Poetic
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Available Away Circumstance Deepest God Joy Person Put Take
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Bad Good Jesus Lot One People Think
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Actually Faith Object Save Strength
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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Bad Experience God Good Handle Live Our Out Powerful Prayer Taken Thing Turn
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Dust Gospel Heaven Humble Time Very
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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Accept Doe God Grace Leave Love See
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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Christ Future Give Giving Handle Hope Now Only Resurrection Right Scar
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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Forgiveness Forgiving God Radical Seen Sin Thought
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Accept Defensive God Life Most Now Send Trust
God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Back Become Believe Body Breakable Country Expert God People Someone Suffer
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Anything Crush Expectation Love More Object Under Weight World
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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Christian Guilt Motivate Motivation Other Say Shoes Tend
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Change Grace Ideas Long never Think
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
Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Bride Good Groom Jesus Men Unless

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