"If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will."
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"The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom."
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"If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared."
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"Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God."
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"Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to."
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"Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth."
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"If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?"
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"I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey"
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"It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches."
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"Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry."
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"If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did."
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"Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend."
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"On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace."
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"A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love."
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"The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others."
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"Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin."
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"If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing."
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"For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior."
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"God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we."
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"If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now."
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