"To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself."
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"The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods."
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"Men can see the greatest miracles and miss the glory of God. What generation was ever favored with miracles as Jesus' generations was? Yet that generation crucified the Son of God!"
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"The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus?"
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"Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus."
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"Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out."
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"Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once."
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"The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us."
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"We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order."
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"Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross."
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"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all."
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"I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it."
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"If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God."
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"Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news."
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"Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer."
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"Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast."
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"When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself."
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"Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd."
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"I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be."
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"Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith."
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