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This 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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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