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A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.
Rob Bell
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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Ingham County
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Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.
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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
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Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
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At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.
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Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.
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To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
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Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
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What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
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I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
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To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
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God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
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You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
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It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime.
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People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.
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The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.
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Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.
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It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.
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Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.
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