It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Anand Thakur
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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