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A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.
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Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
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If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.
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What you do in secret tells you who your God is.
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The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but What has Jesus done for you?
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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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Jesus does not just bring good news he is the good news.
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Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.
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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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Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.
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We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
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Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
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Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
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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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In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
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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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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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If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.
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