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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
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
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
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
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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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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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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