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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

John Ortberg

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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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
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

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