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

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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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The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.
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When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
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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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Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
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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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I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
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Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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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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Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.
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The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.
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Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.
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We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
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No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.
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