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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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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
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
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
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
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Enough Heart Information
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Advice Christian Heart
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 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
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
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
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
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
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run

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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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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