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I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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Enjoy Friendly Theological
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
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
God’s grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I’ll do that for you. Or if you don’t do this for me, I won’t do that for you. And God’s grace works in a completely different direction.
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Different Grace Life
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
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
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Church People Thinking
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
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Enough Good Old Testament Work
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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Broken Grace People
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
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
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
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
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

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