"A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good."
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"You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place."
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"There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body."
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"Marriage is two broken people having little broken people."
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"No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel."
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"In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief."
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"Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me."
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"Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life."
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"It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right."
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"The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about."
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"Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not."
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"The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion."
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"Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life."
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"As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us."
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"You are under-qualified for the job of God."
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"For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives."
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"The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you."
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"Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength."
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"I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears"
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"Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose."
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