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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

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
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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