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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

John Ortberg

The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
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
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Anand Thakur
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
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
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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Anand Thakur
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Anand Thakur
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
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

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