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The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.
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Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
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We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.
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It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.
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What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models.
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Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
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Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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The common denominator is that we all need help.
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Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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Grace is God-given power to live differently.
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A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'
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We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
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If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.
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