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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

Timothy Keller

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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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Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
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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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Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.
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A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!
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On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
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Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
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The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
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If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.
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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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A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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