"The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life."
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"Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either."
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"Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort."
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"Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence ."
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"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."
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"What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give."
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"We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have."
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"A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person."
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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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"How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey."
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"What you do in secret tells you who your God is."
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"God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you."
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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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"If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you."
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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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"God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself."
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"Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift."
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"A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's."
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"If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable."
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"The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time."
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