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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

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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
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
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
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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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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
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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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision

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