"Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God."
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"We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them."
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"Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you."
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"If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice."
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"Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough."
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"It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design."
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"When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others."
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"We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry"
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"Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin."
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"You don't fall in love. You commit to it."
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"If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda."
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"The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident."
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"The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us."
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"If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us."
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"We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that’s not what sends you to heaven or Hell."
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"When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly."
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"When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others."
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"When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods."
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"There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest."
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"Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic."
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