"In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him."
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"You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what."
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"Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'"
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"We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming."
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"Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him."
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"Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him."
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"No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great."
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"To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works."
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"To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything."
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"If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public."
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"The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in."
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"God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it."
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"This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now)."
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"Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost."
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"The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence."
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"The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them."
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"Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts."
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"People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters."
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"God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows"
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"Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change."
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