We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
BOB GOFFWe won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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Simply put: love does.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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What 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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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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