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Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

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The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.
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To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.
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All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.
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Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.
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The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances it promises you a better life.
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The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.
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The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
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When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
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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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To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Christians should not be optimists we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
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All life-changing love is inconvenient.
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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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