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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

John Ortberg

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
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
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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 goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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