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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.

John Ortberg

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation 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
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Anand Thakur
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Anand Thakur
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
JOHN ORTBERG

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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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 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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