Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Anand Thakur
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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