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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.

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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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Backyards First Tennis
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
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
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
Grace doesn’t lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
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Grace Kindness Remedy
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think
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
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Advice Christian Heart
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Enough Heart Information
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
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
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
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
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

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