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The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

Timothy Keller

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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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Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
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What you do in secret tells you who your God is.
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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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Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'
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It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.
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Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.
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Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.
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To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
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You don't fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.
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To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.
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Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.
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A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.
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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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In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.
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Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.
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A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?
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If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.
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