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John Starke
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The witness of Christian history is that the ambitious need quiet hearts. We need ancient paths for our modern, busy lives that teach us to be settled with God in an unsettling world.
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Restlessnes Keeps the Pedal to the Metal
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Ryan P. Tinetti
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Habakkuk 2:5, James 3:16, Mark 8:36, Luke 12:15, Isaiah 57:20, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 John 2:16
Restlessness keeps the pedal to the metal. To offer a suggestive analogy in this vein: several years ago there was a recall on some Toyota vehicles. Evidently the cars would be given to sudden and unc...
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Alain de Botton
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Ambition has no rest.
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John Koessler
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- Rest
- Ambition
I find it hard to be at rest and ambitious at the same time.
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Without Applause, I die
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Ryan P. Tinetti
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James 3:16, 1 John 2:16, John 5:44, Matthew 6:1, Philippians 2:3
There’s undeniably a dark side to restless ambition, however. You can see it in dramatic fashion in the documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop , which follows the comedian on tour after he left the To...
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The #1 Disciple
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John Ortberg
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Matthew 6:25-34, Galatians 1:10, Philippians 2:3-4, Matthew 23:1-12, 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, James 4:1-10, 1 Peter 5:1-11
Harold Kushner wrote about a very bright, driven pre-med student at a very competitive college. While traveling in the East the summer before his junior year, he met a guru who said, “Don’t you see yo...
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John Stott
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- Ambition
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or une...
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Dave Harvey
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- Ambition
- Emptying Ourselves
Most people think of ambition as climbing, upward mobility, always looking for step up (and willing to step on others to get it. But biblical ambition points in the other direction—the direction Chris...
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Savior Jesus, we confess that all too often we are incapable of looking
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Jonathan Cornell
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Mark 10:35-45, Philippians 2:3-7, Psalm 139:23-24, John 3:1-17, Mark 10:17-27
Savior Jesus, we confess that all too often we are incapable of looking beyond our own ambitions. We get wrapped up in prestige and position, leaving you behind for our own aspirations. Forgive our mi...
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Identity and Achievement at L'Arche
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Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Galatians 1:10, Philippians 2:3-4, Matthew 23:1-12, 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, James 4:1-10, 1 Peter 5:1-11
All of us struggle with our own desires for accomplishment and ambition. Christians especially find it difficult to discern their own worldly ambitions vs. following Jesus’ comand to seek first the ki...
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If Life is a Competition
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William Barclay
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If a man is forever concerned first and foremost with his own interests then he is bound to collide with others. If for any man life is a competition…then he will always think of other human beings as...
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Now What?
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Gary A. Haugen
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Genesis 25:29-34, Isaiah 55:1-3, Ecclesiastes 2:1-11, Luke 14:16-24, Philippians 3:7-14, Psalm 16:11
Indeed, there comes a time in the life of every believer and of every church where a voice inside us simply asks, Now what? After we have been introduced to Jesus and have found peace with God through...
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Everyone: Holy God, we live our lives
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Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
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Romans 5:8, Luke 15:11-32, Luke 10:25-37, John 4:1-26, John 3:16, Ephesians 4:32, 2 Timothy 1:9
Everyone: Holy God, we live our lives struggling in our own burdens and failing to trust You with all the things that hold us down. Leader: Your Scripture says, "Come to Me all you who are wear...
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John Blanchard
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- Ambition
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, ...
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Dave Harvey
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The career path for the Christian looks different than for others. We should not be hungry for her own name or unrestrained in our self-promotion. We don’t need to broker our future. The gospel remind...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Joshua 1:6-9, Nehemiah 2:11-20, 1 Kings 19:19-21, Psalm 122:1, Romans 12:11
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The Two Runners
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Matthew 6:33, Colossians 3:23, Psalm 39:6, Luke 12:15, Acts 15:29, Matthew 5:14-16, Ephesians 2:10, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 16:24, Luke 9:62, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, James 1:12, Romans 8:16-17, Galatians 2:20
The true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, two British sprinters who qualified for the 1924 Olympic Games, illustrates two contrasting approaches to life and identity. Abrahams was driven by ...
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A Hungry/Thirsty Soul
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Beth Moore
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John 4:null
The soul can also manifest physical symptoms of need. I like to think of it this way: Just like my stomach growls when I’m hungry for physical food, my spirit tends to growl when I’m in need of spirit...
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Benjamin Franklin
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- Ambition
- Satisfaction
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Chinese Proverb
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- Ambition
He who opens his heart for ambition closes it for the rest.
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Augustine of Hippo
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Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in u...
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Dave Harvey
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- Ambition
- Bearing Fruit
God loves good ambition. It brings him glory as he works through our desires to fulfill his purpose. God doesn’t need us, but amazingly he uses us. But to position us for fruitfulness, he’s continuall...
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E. Stanley Jones
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- Ambition
We grow small trying to be great.
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Christian Maturity and Gentleness
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John E. Biersdorf
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Proverbs 15:1, 2 Timothy 2:24-25, Isaiah 42:3, Philippians 4:5, Galatians 5:22-23, Matthew 11:29
Compassion is expressed in gentleness. When I think of persons I know who model for me the depths of spiritual life, I am struck by their gentleness. Their eyes communicate the residue of solitary bat...
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22nd Sunday after Pentecost
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Jonathan Cornell
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Mark 10:35-45
Questions on the Road When we encounter today’s text, Jesus and the disciples continue to make their way from Capernaum to Jerusalem. According to Google Maps (the most trusted first century map appl...
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A Successful Book & A Failed Political Campaign
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Ryan Holiday
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In his famous 1934 campaign for the governorship of California, the author and activist Upton Sinclair took an unusual step. Before the election, he published a short book titled I, Governor of Cal...
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Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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- Ambition
- Dangers of Success
When we’ve had a good year in our own kingdom, we aren’t necessarily looking for God’s Kingdom.
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Sinclair B. Ferguson
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- Ambition
- Contentment
Christian contentment… is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal and the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with a provision...
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18th Sunday after Pentecost
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Cody Sandahl
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Mark 9:30-37
Summary This is one of those texts where it’s pretty easy to laugh at the disciples. This is the second time Jesus told them he was going to die and then rise again after three days. And yet they wer...