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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

John Ortberg

Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
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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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
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
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
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance

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