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

John Ortberg

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
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
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

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