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

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Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.
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Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
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Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
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The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
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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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Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.
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Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
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To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.
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Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
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Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.
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Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.
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The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
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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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