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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.

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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

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Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

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