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" For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented by God. "
Tullian Tchividjian
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" My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. "
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" There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. "
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" The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. "
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" The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. "
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Work
" My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace. "
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" The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives. "
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" Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. "
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Effort
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" The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves. "
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Place
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" The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. "
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" Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts. "
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Man
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