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The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

Timothy Keller

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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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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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Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
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We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.
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Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.
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The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances it promises you a better life.
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The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.
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Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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The Bible judges the church the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.
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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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All life-changing love is inconvenient.
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Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.
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Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.
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God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
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