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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

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

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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
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

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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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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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