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Indifference and hopelessness are both dangerous. The danger isn’t simply that you’re unhappy or that your marriage is less than it could be; it’s that God becomes increasingly irrelevant to your marriage, the relationship that defines your
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“Obedience is impossible apart from the gospel, but inevitable with it.”
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
“One of the key strategies of faith is to tackle fear not by belittling the fear or wishing it away but by taking our eyes off of that which makes us afraid and looking to God.”
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
“God chooses the weak in order to exalt his name (cf. 1 Cor. 1:26–27). This is good news for all of us who recognize our own weaknesses and sin. Our failings do not disqualify us from Christ’s kingdom. Spiritual heroism is not what qualifies us for heaven. There is only one hero in the gospel story: Jesus himself.”
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
“Pain does not indicate the absence of God. Pain invites us into communion with Jesus and greater dependence on him, as we yearn for his coming while sharing in his sufferings”
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
“John is also not saying that our obedience merits or earns God’s love (he has already established Christ’s propitiating sacrifice as the basis of our salvation; see 2:1–2), but rather that those who have God’s love show it, and this evidence of a life transformed by him is critical assurance of being united to him. Our obedience does not gain his love but evidences it. Our disobedience does not remove his love but does affect our assurance. We cannot confidently claim that his grace is ours if we show no evidence that our lives are his.”
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
― ESV Gospel Transformation Bible
Willie’s 2025 Year in Books
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