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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

John Ortberg

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
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
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

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