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Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.
Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.
True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.
Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God
Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.
The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.
Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.
Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.
Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it
We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.
When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.
The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.
When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.
Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.
If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.
Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.
When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.
Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.