Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

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You never lose by giving it all to Jesus.

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It's not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It's the object of our worship Who is awesome.

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Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

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Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

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The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive!

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People say all the time 'I don't have a good testimony' because they think their story has to involve some dramatic story of change from 'bad' to 'good'. But Jesus didn't come to save people this way. Sin doesn't make us bad it makes us dead. Jesus came to save by bringing the dead to life. And that's an amazing testimony.

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You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

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Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.

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God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

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