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The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

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To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
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If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
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Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
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Christianity is not just for the strong it's for everyone.
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While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
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When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
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Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.
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Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.
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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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When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.
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Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
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At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.
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If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.
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Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.
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Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.
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