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

John Ortberg

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
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
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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 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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

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