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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.

Bob Goff

I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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Heart Opportunity Thinking
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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Answer Loving People School Sunday
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Easy Fall Lasts
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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Certain might Remembered
If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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Holding Littles Lost
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People
I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple Thinking
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs
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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Delight Jesus Prayer
I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Fully Invited Learn Living Part
The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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Find Made Organisation Say
That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Assuming Express Way
Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Jesus Life Live Thinking
When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Feels Humble Needs
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Sacred Safe Settling
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Different Giving Helping
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Absence Calling Shots
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Heart Hearts Information Our
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Information Needs Passion
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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Church Fists Thinking
We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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Arrive Jesus Moving Son

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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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