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You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.

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I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.
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Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’
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We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
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So relational evangelism? Go for it, as long as it turns into real evangelism. You hanging out having a beer with your buddy so he can see that Christians are cool is not what we’re called to do. You’re eventually going to have to open up your mouth and share the gospel. When the pure gospel is shared, people respond.
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He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.
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We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
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While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.
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The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.
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I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.
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I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.
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Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.
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The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.
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Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.
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Some people are so moral they feel like they have no need for Jesus. True worshippers know they are in deep need of Jesus Christ and are transformed morally by beholding Jesus and seeing their lives transformed by the Spirit's power from the inside out rather than conformed to a pattern of religion from the outside in.
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There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.
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Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
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This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.
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When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’
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Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.
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If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.
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