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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

John Ortberg

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

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