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We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity
Matt Chandler
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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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When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.
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God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
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The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.
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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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Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
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The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.
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We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.
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Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God.
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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 was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
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Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow.
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The heart of our problem is the problem of our hearts.
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I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.
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We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
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The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.
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If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what makes it clear and personal, and the next thing you know, we will be doing a bunch of different things that actually obscure the gospel, not reveal it.
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In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn’t have or do in this life.
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