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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

John Ortberg

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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
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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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

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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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
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering

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