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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

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
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality

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

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