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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

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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