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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Anand Thakur
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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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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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