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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

John Ortberg

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Anand Thakur
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
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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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
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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Anand Thakur
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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Anand Thakur
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Anand Thakur
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Anand Thakur

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

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