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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

John Ortberg

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
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
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
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
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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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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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