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When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Timothy Keller

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Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
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We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
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The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.
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On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
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