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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

John Ortberg

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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