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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

John Ortberg

God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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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
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
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
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
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
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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.
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Anand Thakur

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

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