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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
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Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.
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Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.
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Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
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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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Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
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We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.
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Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.
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God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
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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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If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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