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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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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It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.

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Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

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We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night.

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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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But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

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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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Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.

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