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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

John Ortberg

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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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
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
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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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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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