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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

John Ortberg

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
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
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.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

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