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Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

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I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a s...more

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The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter wit...more

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To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's G...more

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As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and reali...more

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In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

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The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what ...more

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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

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While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encount...more

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Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... ...more

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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

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Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...Script...more

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[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching...more

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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.