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

John Ortberg

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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
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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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
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

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