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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

John Ortberg

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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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
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
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
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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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation

Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

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