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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

John Ortberg

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart

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