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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

John Ortberg

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

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