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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

Andy Stanley

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
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
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Act Change Courage Extraordinary
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
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Differences Make
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
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
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
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Challenge Matter People
I’ve talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don’t really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don’t need a solution. They need a new direction.
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Direction Discussion Individual Problem Solution Talk
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
Direction, not intention determines your destination.
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Destination Determination Direction Yourself
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
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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Farmer Fear God Himself Irrational Lose
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
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
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Choice Difference Fools Right Wrong
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself 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
To understand why, submit and apply.
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Apply Submit Understand
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Difference Existence Point
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
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God Hands Need Thinking Trust Yourself
God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.
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God Human Stage Weakness
My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.
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Hope Myself Rich
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.
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Criticism Insecure Leader Think
Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
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Change Environment Growth Life Progress
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
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Courage Goodness Ideas Regret Simplicity
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
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Communication Complex Information People
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
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Gratitude Guilty Heart Positive

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