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" Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. "
John Ortberg
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" Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list. "
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" Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.' "
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" Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor. "
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" We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries. "
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" Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto. "
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" There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text. "
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" There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly. "
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" The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness. "
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" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "
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" The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude. "
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" Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries. "
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" When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with. "
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" You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody. "
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" Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. "
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" In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison. "
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" For most 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. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. "
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" I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally. "
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" People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller. "
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" 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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" When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part. "
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" Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body. "
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" I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. "
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" The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. "
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" The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking. "
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" Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. "
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" There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. "
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" I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage. "
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