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Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.
When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
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.
God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.
Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.
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
Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.
You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'
Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.
It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.
Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.
Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere
Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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.
No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.
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.
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.
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.