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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 church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
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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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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