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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

John Ortberg

Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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 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
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

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