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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

John Ortberg

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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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
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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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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
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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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom

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