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Prayer turns theology into experience.

Timothy Keller

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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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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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Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
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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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Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.
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