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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

John Ortberg

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
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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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Anand Thakur

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

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