A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Anand Thakur
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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