It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Anand Thakur
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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