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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.

John Ortberg

The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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
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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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
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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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
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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