American - Clergyman | May 5, 1957 -
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
John Ortberg
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From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.
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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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Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
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There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text.
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The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.
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Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.
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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.
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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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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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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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When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.
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