When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
BOB GOFFWhat would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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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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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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