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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

John Ortberg

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Anand Thakur
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
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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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul

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