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"God looks on us and our works and sees both as better than we deserve."

"If, in order to sound pious and humble, we insist that our good works are actually nothing of the sort, we end up making too little of the Spirit's work in our lives and muting dozens of biblical texts."

"Why is it automatically prideful to recognize evidence of your spiritual new birth?"
Jan 02, 2026 02:58AM
Impossible Christianity: Why Following Jesus Does Not Mean You Have to Change the World, Be an Expert in Everything, Accept Spiritual Failure, and Feel Miserable Pretty Much All the Time

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I heard DeYoung present (really preach) the central idea of this book at a breakfast hosted by Crossway at an ETS conference in San Antonio. He made me cry, which was not nice of him.
Jan 01, 2026 03:14AM
Impossible Christianity: Why Following Jesus Does Not Mean You Have to Change the World, Be an Expert in Everything, Accept Spiritual Failure, and Feel Miserable Pretty Much All the Time


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