Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
TIMOTHY KELLERThis is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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