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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Psychologist
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Rockford
Illinois
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Jesus
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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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 in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success
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Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as the self stuffed with the self.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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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 said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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