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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

John Ortberg

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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 are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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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
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
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

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