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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

John Ortberg

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
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
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
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
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

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