To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Anand Thakur
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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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