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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

John Ortberg

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
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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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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
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

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