"Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way."
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"The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved."
"It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding."
"Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'"
"Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith."
"Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you."
"Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension."
"A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need."
"Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries."
"Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'"
"By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived."
"The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true."
"You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule."
"It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between."
"If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will."
"Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth."
"I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey"
"If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did."
"On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace."
"Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO."