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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

John Ortberg

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

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