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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
JOHN ORTBERG

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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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 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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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 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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

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