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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Ortberg

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
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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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
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
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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