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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

John Ortberg

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
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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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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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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