"Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love."
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"Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'."
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"The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel."
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"Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life."
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"The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed.... Regardless of their record or character, all human beings have an irreducible glory and significance to them, because God loves them.... So we must treasure each and every human being as a way of showing due respect for the majesty of their owner and Creator."
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"Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city."
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"Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be."
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"Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever."
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"Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations."
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"At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast."
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"How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?"
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"Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement."
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"Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives."
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"There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'"
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"The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas."
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"If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you."
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"The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity."
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"Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?"
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"To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love."
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"You are a totally loved moral failure."
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