The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
BOB GOFFThe way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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