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- One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human…
- One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
- Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever…
- Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
- Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
- Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story…
- We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus…
- In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.
- Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
- 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…
- 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…
- Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.
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