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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

John Ortberg

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Improvement Planning Salvation

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