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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

John Ortberg

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
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
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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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
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality

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