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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.

John Ortberg

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
JOHN ORTBERG

Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
JOHN ORTBERG

Employee Extrovert Himself Question
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
JOHN ORTBERG

Argument God Often
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERG

Love Necessary True Willing

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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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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