God is distinct and unique from everything with which we are familiar. He is not what we expect. We would never invent the God of the Bible. Invented gods are like the people that invent them. They are not separate. They are common. That is
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“God created the institution of marriage to proclaim the gospel. Our children are the first audience impacted. God wants our children to see our marriages, behold the beauty of the gospel, and be irresistibly attracted.”
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting
“The believer’s fear of God is not the slavish fear found in the Old Testament. Rather, it is grounded in a sense of God’s holiness, his hatred of evil, the judgment my sin deserves, and the horrible fate of unbelief. Mingled with all of this is a profound sense of sonship, adoption, God’s free grace, and his extravagant, glorious, unearnable love. Those who rightly fear God increasingly revel in his infinite grace. The more one fears God, the more he or she confesses with Paul that nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:39).”
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting
“Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all,” concludes Martyn Lloyd-Jones. “We deserve nothing but hell. If you think you deserve heaven, take it from me, you are not a Christian.”
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting
― Gospel-Powered Parenting: How the Gospel Shapes and Transforms Parenting

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