Salvation is not a hard-fought goal that we strive to achieve; it’s a gift that we hold out our hands to receive.
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Sometimes God will close one door—usually the door that we want to go through—only to open another door—often one that we hadn’t even considered.
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This passage is not about what kind of food is served on the table but rather the God who makes room at the table for everyone.
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Life can be an ordeal. No one knows this more than our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who endured the ordeal of the cross,
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God does not call the qualified, God qualifies those whom God calls.
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There is power in what we believe…resurrecting power.
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The question “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” suggests that the real story is not the empty tomb but the living Christ.
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The road that Jesus chooses truly does make all the difference…for himself, for his disciples, for us, and for everyone everywhere.
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The gospel is about the priceless riches of God’s grace poured out for sinners like us in the death of Jesus Christ.
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God wants to celebrate with us the joy of our salvation that Jesus accomplished for us on the cross.
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We must not hear “repent or perish” as an ultimatum but as an invitation.
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Patience with God is central to Christian faith. In some sense, it is faith.
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The devil wants Jesus to use his relationship with the Father not in service to the world but in service to himself.
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The good news is that God is on our side, so much so that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.
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We want a savior who will fight for us, but we need a savior who will die for us.
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When we are grateful for what Christ accomplished on the cross, we hear the command to love our enemies very differently.
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We are not good people in need of improvement, we are dead in sin and in need of resurrection.
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The church of God doesn’t have a mission, the mission of God has a church.
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If we are truly to be the church of Jesus Christ, then we are called to show mercy, even—and I would add, especially—to the wrong kind of people.
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Jesus, quite literally, is the life of the party…he has come to give us life…and that life is one of joy.
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