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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

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Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.
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If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.
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I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.
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It takes both spouses to say, My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage to have a great marriage.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.
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A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.
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Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
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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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In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.
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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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The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.
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Jesus's 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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The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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