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To become truly free, you must surrender.

John Ortberg

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
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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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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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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