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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.
Timothy Keller
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It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.
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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.
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Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God
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Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.
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I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears
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Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
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If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?
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Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
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If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
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