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"Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope."
"If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness."
"As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have."
"Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow."
"The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become."
"Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming."
"God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift."
"If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life."
"Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally."
"Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel."
"Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good."
"While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener."
"When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both."
"The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do."
"The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart."
"The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope."
"Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give."
"The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them."
"One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do."
"Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel."