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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.

John Ortberg

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
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
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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 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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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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