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You are under-qualified for the job of God.

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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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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'
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Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.
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Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross
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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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If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.
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The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.
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Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
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The church does not simply have a missions department it should wholly exist to be a mission.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.
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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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We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry
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