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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

John Ortberg

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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 character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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