"We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him."
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"Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms."
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"Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way."
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"All life-changing love is inconvenient."
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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."
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"The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth."
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"The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received."
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"I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die."
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"Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place."
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"Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself."
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"As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom."
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"It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding."
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"Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him."
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"Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God."
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"Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'"
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"What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe."
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"Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend."
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"Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith."
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"Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is."
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"Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’"
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