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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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No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.
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It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.
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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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[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.
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If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.
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What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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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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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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The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.
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Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God
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While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
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Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
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Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.
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Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
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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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