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" In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin. "
John Ortberg
Time
Worship
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" Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them. "
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" Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart. "
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" Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. "
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" People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible. "
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" Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. "
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" Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general. "
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Ego
" There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text. "
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Same
Text
" 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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" 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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Slow
Women
" The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by. "
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Question
Up
" Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love. "
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Love
People
" Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all. "
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Spiritual
Believe
Satan
" Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church. "
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Church
Women
" My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously. "
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Most
Wife
" I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. "
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Hate
Spiritual
Church
" A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. "
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Everyone
" 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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Us
Community
Ghetto
" 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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Sure
Urgency
Ministry
" Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. "
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Women
Sick
" Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. "
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Nobody
God
First
" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "
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Story
Death
Christian
" Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures. "
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Shaped
Who
Generally
" This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings. "
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" As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus. "
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Truth
" 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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Satan
Sometimes
" Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me. "
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Me
Character
" Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth. "
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Authority
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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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Gift
Up
" The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. "
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Idols
Even
Always