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“When we pretend to have all the answers, we're not telling the truth.”

Truth Honesty Pretense

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“My honesty before him was all he wanted all along. He didn't want my blind trust or my white-knuckled attempts to clean myself up for him. He wanted me, all of me, all my history, all my brokenness, all my fears and anxieties and angers. He just wanted me to be completely honest about where I was going with this burden of brokenness.”

God Honesty Surrender

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“To despair is not to turn your back on God - it is to believe that God has turned his back on you.”

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“We're afraid he has plans for others, but not for us. That he has hopes for others, but not for us. That he has a future for others, but not for us. That he's with us but that he's turned his back on us.”

God Hope Despair

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“...too many days with empty hands can begin to harden one's heart.”

Suffering The Heart Turning Away From God

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“Knowing we are valuable to God means we will care for wounds as we discover them. It means we will submit to the whole healing process, even the painful parts that feel like antiseptic or physical therapy. It means we will not pretend hard things don't hurt or emotions aren't real or death doesn't sting. It means we will weep when we're sad, laugh when we feel joy, have silence when we don't have words, and shout when it's right. It means we will acknowledge our own grief and attend to it. It means each generation becomes a little more healed and whole as we go, until the whole world is reconciled to Christ in wholeness.”

Suffering Grief Healing God S Love

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“...we cannot repent for our sin unless we name it. We cannot repent for what we've done unless we know what we've done.”

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“And if the bad news is that we are all unclean, the good news is that there is one gospel to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Sin Salvation Gospel

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“Our great and cosmic and inclusive sin is that we chose our own way over our Father's way.”

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“Only when we are free from condemnation is our endeavor to refrain from sinning rooted in the freedom Christ offers.”

Sin Forgiveness Feedom

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“...if I can grasp how valuable I am to God, then perhaps I can engage in the work of healing generational poverty, wounds, trauma, vocational brokenness, and more. If I stay with the question long enough to consider what it means to be loved by God and cared for - even if the love and care I have received from others pale in comparison - then perhaps I can stay with the healing he offers to those he loves.”

Healing God S Love

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“We all wanted to be used by God, but none of us wanted to fold up the chairs afterward.”

Ministry Self Absorption

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“...we can't admit we're not God until we look up and see God - in all his glory, in all his otherworldliness, in all his holiness, his set-apartness.”

God Idols Self Absorption

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“...heartsickness is a gateway to hard-heartedness.”

The Heart Turning Away From God

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