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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.

Bill Hybels

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I’d see it in my lifetime.
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Asleep Church Lifetime Thinking Years
I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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Faithful Frightened God Looked Situation
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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Flourish Proud Relationship Spouse
Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
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Leader Light Our World
God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
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Leader Moving Stuff
Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
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Decisions You Leader Make Spirit
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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Courage Encouraging Uplifting
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Average Blind Spots Weakness
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
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Earnestly Father Prayer
Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
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Destructive Invites Track
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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Busy Christian Spiritual
The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Attention Intended Jesus Prayer
And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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Christ Country Eventually Positive Redeeming
The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
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Best Gift Giving Introduction
It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
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Coincidence Praying
Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment
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Equipment People Vision

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