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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

John Ortberg

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
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
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
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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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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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom

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