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Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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I am God and I am coming to find you.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.
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The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
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Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
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If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
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The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.
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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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Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
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Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.
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One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
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Christianity is not just for the strong it's for everyone.
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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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It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
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