"Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship."
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"It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage."
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"Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption ."
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"When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice."
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"Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity."
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"Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed."
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"We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God."
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"Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends."
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"Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace."
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"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness."
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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."
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"Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming."
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"Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon."
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"The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering."
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"It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for."
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"The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment."
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"The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died."
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"If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself."
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"No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus."
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"Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come."
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