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

John Ortberg

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
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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