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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.

John Ortberg

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
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
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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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
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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

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