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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

John Ortberg

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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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
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

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