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" My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two. "
John Ortberg
Confidence
God
Live
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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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" Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me. "
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" Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. "
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" 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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" In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings. "
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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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" Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. "
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" We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol. "
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" We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis. "
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" Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality. "
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" Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.' "
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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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" Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. "
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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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Eye
Ego
" 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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Time
" Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death. "
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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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" Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. "
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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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" There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text. "
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" Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams. "
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" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "
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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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" Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around. "
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" 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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" In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin. "
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" Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing. "
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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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" Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church. "
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