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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.

John Ortberg

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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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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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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 Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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