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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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Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
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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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Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.
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The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.
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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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The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances it promises you a better life.
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Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
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It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.
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Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
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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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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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Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'
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Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.
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All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.
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The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.
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A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.
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Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.
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