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Lord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.

Andy Stanley

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
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God Provide Relationship See
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
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Give Mean People Percentage
God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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Honor Order Planning
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Alone Application Holy Knowledge
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
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
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Character Judgement Quiz Test
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.
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Ability Freedom Story Yourself
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Christian Leadership Volunteer
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
To understand why, submit and apply.
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Apply Submit Understand
When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.
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Dreams End Excess Memories
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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Gratitude Guilty Heart Positive
You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.
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Association Influence People Refusal Yourself
At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.
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Day End God Limitation Love World Yourself
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Love Start Stay Submission
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
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Behavior Creation People Problem System Yourself
What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
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Break Change Design Divine Heart Yourself
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.
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Authentic Demonstration Devotion God Love Yourself
Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
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God Important Maintain Oneself Peace
Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.
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Faith God Love Oneself True
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
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Believe Christian Son
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
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Christian Faith Simple
Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
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Expression Hope Jesus Vehicle World
Lord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.
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Courage Hard Myself Right Wisdom
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
Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.
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Blessing Himself Man Opportunity Passion Share Surround
Here’s something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” how would you answer?
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Christian God Religious

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what’s right and the courage to do what’s right-even when it’s hard.

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