Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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