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Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

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To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.
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The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances it promises you a better life.
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The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
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If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.
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If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
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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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The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.
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If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
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