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" We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval. "

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" I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus. "

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" Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves. "

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" The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. "

" Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse. "

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" An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. "

" Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time. "

" What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root. "

" Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. "

" When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself. "

" When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done. "

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" Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours! "

" If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done,' we'll miss the good news that alone can set us free. "

" 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. "

" Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. "

" The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us. "

" Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. "

" Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments. "

" There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God. "

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" The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust. "

" At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another. "

" Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. "

" There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself. "

" The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be. "

" I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. "

" 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. "

" There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. "

" Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin. "

" 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. "

" Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved. "

" Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us. "