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Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

Andy Stanley

I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
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Believe Group Preparation
Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: ‘There is no God’ or ‘There is no money’?
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Anxiety Creation God Himself Money Statement
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
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God Grace Resistance Time Yourself
We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.
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Decision Future Impact Moments Ourselves Thinking
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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Deep Live Mess People Planning
People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!
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Accountable Leadership Temporary Yourself
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
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Christian Leader Leadership
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
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Day Decision Determination Health Marriage Yourself
Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.
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Forgiveness Goodness Heaven People
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
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Education God Ignorance Virtue Wisdom
If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
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Difficult Old Originate Teaching
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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God Long Past Sorry Tell
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.
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Believe Death Fake Myself Science Teacher
Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.
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Believe Drama Minute Wall
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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Gratitude Guilty Heart Positive
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
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Morning Simple Sunday
Progress requires change.
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Change One Liner Progress
Direction, not intention determines your destination.
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Destination Determination Direction Yourself
Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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Blame Future Issues Ourselves
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don’t run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
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Adversity Follow Leadership Preparation Run Step
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
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Death Man Myself Prediction
My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
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Christian Food Kids Leadership
Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
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Challenge Death Generation Need Pay Price Silence
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Better Give Up Investment Sacrifice

Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

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Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

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