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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

John Ortberg

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
The church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERG

Business Hope One Liner
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Improvement Planning Salvation
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goal Live Separate Time
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
JOHN ORTBERG

Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
JOHN ORTBERG

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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Himself Known Mysterious
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERG

Humble Notice Oneself
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

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