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Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

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Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.
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What you do in secret tells you who your God is.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.
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Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.
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If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
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We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.
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We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?
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The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
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If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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