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Timothy Keller
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Genesis 1:26-27, Deuteronomy 7:7-9, Isaiah 43:7 , John 17:24, Ephesians 1:4-5, Psalm 8:3-5
The only reason God would have had for creating us was not to get the cosmic love and joy of relationship (because he already had that) but to share it.
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Jaroslav Pelikan
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Deuteronomy 6:4-9 , Job 19:25-27 , Isaiah 43:1-3, Matthew 16:13-18 , 2 Timothy 1:12-14 , Psalm 133:1
My faith life, like that of every one else, fluctuates. There are ups and downs and hot spots and cold spots and boredom and ennui and all the rest can be there. And so I’m not asked on a Sunday morni...
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Scott Erickson
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Genesis 37:23-28, Exodus 3:11-12 , Isaiah 43:1, John 1:42, Luke 8:26-39 , Psalm 139:13-16
Who we are is deeper than where we find ourselves in this moment. And Jesus illuminates that deeper identity.
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Donald S. Whitney
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Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27 , Isaiah 43:1, Psalm 73:25-26, Romans 8:15-16, Philippians 3:20-21
Thus when someone is born again, the Holy Spirit gives that person new Fatherward desires, a new heavenward orientation whereby we cry, “Abba, Father!”
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Bernard of Clairvaux
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Romans 12:1, Psalm 139:13-14, Genesis 15:, Isaiah 43:1, 1 John 4:19
Why should not the creature love His creator, who gave him the power to love? Why should he not love Him with all his being, since it is by His gift alone that he can do anything that is good? It was ...
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Eugene Peterson
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2 Samuel 11:12, Exodus 2:23-25, Jonah 1:4, Isaiah 43:25, Micah 7:18-19
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
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Catherine the Great
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Romans 8:1, Isaiah 43:25, Colossians 1:13-14, Ephesians 1:7, Micah 7:18-19, 1 John 1:9
Dieu pardonerra; c’est son métier; God forgives you — it’s his thing. *for contrast
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Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Luke 15:11-32, Colossians 3:1-3, Philippians 3:13-14, Isaiah 43:18-19, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:8-9
When he found himself desiring to be treated as one of the pigs, he realized he was not a pig but a human being, a son of his father. This realization became the basis for his choice to live instead o...
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Catherine Booth
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Psalm 18:16-19, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Isaiah 43:2
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Isaiah 43:18-19, Genesis 50:19-20, Job 42:10-12, Psalm 116:15, John 12:24
This is the end - for me the beginning of life.
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Nancy Ortberg
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- Faith
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Isaiah 43:2, Hebrews 12:11, Psalm 46:1, 2 Timothy 1:7-8, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 5:3-5, 1 Peter 1:6-7
Someone once said that faith is not a personal possession until you have suffered. That person understood that the very nature of faith requires the grit and courage to be in the dark so you can event...
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Abraham J. Heschel
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Isaiah 43:2, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Job 23:10
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.
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Eugene Peterson
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Mark 2:1-12, John 4:1-42, Ruth 1:4, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Genesis 37:50, Isaiah 43:2, Philippians 4:6-7
My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.
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Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson
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Isaiah 43:18-19 , 1 Samuel 16:7 , Jeremiah 7:4-7, Matthew 9:16-17, Mark 7:6-9, Psalm 96:3
In most cases, the existing church culture is from a former era that is only meaningful to those in the church, not those in the community.
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Charles Hodge
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- Humility
- Jesus
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Genesis 1:26-27, Psalm 8:3-5, Isaiah 43:1, Luke 15:1-7, Romans 5:8
We could search the world over, but we could not find a man so low, so degraded, or so far below the social, economic, and moral norms that we have established for ourselves that he had not been creat...
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Brittany Burgunder
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Philippians 1:6, Psalm 147:3, Hebrews 12:11, 1 Peter 5:10, Isaiah 43:2, Romans 8:28, James 1:2-4
Sometimes the process of growth looks a lot like destruction and pain. But you’ll realize with time that you’re not breaking; you’re healing.
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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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- Beauty
- Goodness
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Isaiah 43:19, Song of Solomon 4:7, Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 147:3, Isaiah 61:3
If the too obvious, too straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or amputated and cannot reach the light—yet perhaps the . . . unexpected branches of Beauty will make their way through and soar...
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C. S. Lewis
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- Advent
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Isaiah 43:18-19, Matthew 2:1-2, Luke 2:10-11
When the year dies in preparation for the birth of other seasons, not the same, on the same earth, Then saving and calamity go together make The Advent gospel, telling how the heart will break. Theref...
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Mary Jane Moffat
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- Healing
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Lamentations 3:22-23, Galatians 2:20, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 43:18-19, James 1:2-4, Philippians 1:6
Recovery is not a process we can will, but consists of experiencing many small deaths, the passing of significant anniversaries, until our identity is solid and natural in the pronoun “I.”
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Marc Lewis
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Jeremiah 29:11, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 32:5, Romans 8:1, Isaiah 43:18-19
I see my past drinking as a behavioral problem, a learned response to dealing (or not dealing) with emotional pain and stress. Once I achieved the excavation of my wounds, I no longer lived with the s...
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Psalm 23:4, Philippians 3:13-14, Lamentations 3:22-23, Isaiah 43:2, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Psalm 30:5, Romans 5:3-5
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
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Kenneth Grahame
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Jeremiah 17:8, Psalm 1:3, Ezekiel 47:9, Isaiah 43:19, Genesis 2:10, John 7:38, Psalm 46:4
“He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before—this sleek, sinuous, full-...
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Lewis B. Smedes
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- Forgiveness
- Healing the Past
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Isaiah 43:18-19, Philippians 3:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Romans 12:17-19, Micah 7:18-19
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope ...
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Dave Miller
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- Sin
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John 10:28-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:6-7, Galatians 2:20, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 34:17-18, Romans 7:24-25
“What’s wrong with me is me. Somebody needs to pull me from the raging waters I call ‘me.’
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Erich Fromm
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Matthew 14:28-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 33:3-6 , Genesis 12:1-4, Exodus 31:1-5 , Isaiah 43:19
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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William Bridges
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Ecclesiastes 3:1, Joshua 1:9, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Psalm 23:4, James 1:2-4, Isaiah 43:18-19
It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transiti...
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Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow
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Mark 2:22, Nehemiah 2:17-18, Isaiah 43:18-19, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Acts 6:1-4
The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect te...

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