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If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

Timothy Keller

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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances it promises you a better life.
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The church does not simply have a missions department it should wholly exist to be a mission.
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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.
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God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
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Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things
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At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
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Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.
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We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry
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We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.
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If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.
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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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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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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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Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.
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