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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

John Ortberg

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
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 character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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