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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

John Ortberg

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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
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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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

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