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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Timothy Keller

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Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.
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Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears humbling defeats and exhausting victories.
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To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.
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We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.
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