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Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

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Mark Batterson
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
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I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.
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You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.
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It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
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I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.
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The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else
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I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.
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The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
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And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
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Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.
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If the kingdom of God had departments, we’d want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn’t hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let’s not wait for people to come to us, let’s go to them.
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