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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

John Ortberg

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
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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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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
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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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision

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