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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

John Ortberg

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
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
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version 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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
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
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
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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