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If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.

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Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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Grace Judgment Longing
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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Get Better Need Self
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Broken Grace People
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Favor Favors God Walk
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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Miserable Source Validation
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Free God Jesus Someone
If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.
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Compelled Feel Identity
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Advice Christian Heart
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
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Emotion Frustrat Men People
The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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Free Happy People Think
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Christian Effort Year
I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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Church Moments Thinking
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think

If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.

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