Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
BOB GOFFOne thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Simply put: love does.
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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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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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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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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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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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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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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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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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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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