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Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Focus
Called
Less
Living
Wholehearted
Simplified
Minded
Single

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