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The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

Timothy Keller

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Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'
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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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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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While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
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Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
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Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.
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Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.
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Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Christians should not be optimists we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
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The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.
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One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
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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 be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
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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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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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