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" Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly. "

John Ortberg

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Depth

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" Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. "

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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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" Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all. "

" It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us. "

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" Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life. "

" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "

" A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives. "

" 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. "

" Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism. "

" I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent. "

" I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive. "

" There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text. "

" A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. "

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Everyone

" 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. "

" Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. "

" Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor. "

" I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity. "

" A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people. "

" I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up. "

" When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with. "

" Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving. "

" One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness. "

" I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. "

" 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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Community

Ghetto

" Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams. "