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The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Timothy Keller

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Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.
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While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
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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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Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
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The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances it promises you a better life.
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The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
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Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.
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The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
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Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
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What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.
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Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
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Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.
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The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.
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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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Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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