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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

Bob Goff

The 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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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Available Determine Influence
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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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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Engaged Most People Things
We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love Needs Stories Story
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Figures Fuel Joy
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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Church Fists Thinking
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple Thinking
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust
Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Animal Better God
We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Become Most Say Trust
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Might Made Missing
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

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