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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

John Ortberg

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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
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
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
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

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