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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The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

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There's no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference.

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God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

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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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Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

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It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

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You don't have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step

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You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

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It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

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