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Yesterday my dad and doubles partner, John C Ortberg St, went home to be with God. I will miss you, Dad, til I see you again.

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Today is Saturday. The day after crucifixion. The day before resurrection. The day in between. We live in a Saturday world.

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Jesus was narrow in his devotion to God and broad in his acceptance of people, we are often lax in our devotion but narrow in our acceptance.

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Resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing. -Frederick Buechner

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Christianity was never intended to produce Christians. Just disciples.

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God loves the worst person in His world more than you love the best person in yours. He loves everybody more than we love anybody.

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Sled gets inadvertently thrown away #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly

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Above all, trust in the slow work of God. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Jesus did not send his people out to make Christians or start churches. He sent them to make DISCIPLES. D Willard

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A great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others. D Willard

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You—the right-now you—are the person Jesus desires to be with. -Dallas Willard

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Idolatry is our desire to domesticate God so that he can be useful without being a nuisance.

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When you have become convinced that the world is able to function without you, you will find true rest. -Dallas Willard

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It is possible to become so obsessed with doing what Jesus says that you fail to become the kind of person Jesus wants. D Willard

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Jesus taught: 'Do what I say & you'll come to know who I am.' We've turned that into 'Believe who he is & you don't have to do what he said'

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Deny self and follow Christ. Or deny Christ and follow self. Those are the options.

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With Jane Willard at the gravesite of Dallas. Those who trust Jesus will never taste death.

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No words to express the sadness of loss of Rachel Held Evans. Prayers for her family, and many friends, and the empty place left behind.

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“The women cannot and must not be silenced.” A statement about the recent @chicagotribune Willow Creek article:

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Dallas Willard’s 3-step plan for humility: -never pretend -never presume -never push Worked pretty good for him.

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I need God all the time every day to save me from what my head tells me are good ideas.

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God is never late. But rarely early.

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If you are not entertaining God's truth, you will be entertaining Satan's lies. You do not have the option of a neutral mind. D Willard

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We have the ability & responsibility to keep God present in our minds, & those who do so will make steady progress toward him for he will respond by making himself known to us.

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‘Truth and reconciliation are sequential. You have to tell the truth first. Then you get to reconciliation.’ Bryan Stevenson

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The cross is God’s defiant claim that no force can defeat the power of sacrificial love.

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We must not have human approval as a primary or even major aim. We must lovingly allow people to think whatever they will. D Willard

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DearGod, I have a problem...me! Dear Child, I have an answer...Me!

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If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

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No one ever died saying, “I’m so glad for the self-serving, self-centered, self-protective life I lived” -Parker Palmer

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I can’t do everything. But I must do something. Each person who persistently calls racism to account makes it a little harder for racism to survive.

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10 years

This weekend I'm preaching with a Bible inflated to 12 1/2 pounds to make it easier to grasp.

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Confession of sin is like taking out the garbage; once is not enough --Neal Plantinga

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'The surest way to know what you haven't surrendered to God is to consider what you're worrying about' Dallas Willard

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Going though pain is inevitable. Growing through it is optional.

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When the Lord is your shepherd, you are prepared to take the absence of something from your life as proof you don’t need it. -D Willard

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‘Maybe to heal isn’t to erase the scar. To heal is to cherish the wound.’ Dr Edith Eva Eger, survivor of Auschwitz

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In the deepest sense love is not something you do. It is something you become—a loving person. -Dallas Willard

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to Gather wood Divide the work Give orders Instead teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. -The Little Prince

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The greatest act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. —Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What simply occupies our mind very largely governs what we do. D Willard PS what’s on your mind?

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Rest is not something that the world gives us...if you want rest, you have to take it, & protect it from a world intent on stealing it. -Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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Why have followers of the most inclusive man in human history, become the most excluding people in American society? This weekend at Menlo

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People are constantly looking for methods. God is looking for people. -Dallas Willard

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When you lay your reputation on the altar, you discover all you’ve lost is a heavy burden. -Barbara Harrison

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One of the greatest things in the world is to love people. It is so much better than hate or indifference. -D Willard

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If we are not listening to the truth of God, we’ll be listening to the lies of the devil. -Dallas Willard

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Tell me what you love and I will tell you who you are.

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People sometimes think it's a miracle that God loves them. No. God simply IS love. It would take a 'miracle' for God to NOT love somebody.

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Confusion is the enemy of spiritual orientation. Rest gives clarity to the mind. -Dallas Willard

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To forgive is to regain yourself -Dallas Willard

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Perhaps the greatest proof of God's infinite patience with human beings is his tolerance of the cheesy songs we write about him.

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The most exalted outcome of submersion in Christ is the transformation of the inner self to be like him -Dallas Willard

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Anyone can know how many seeds are in a single apple. No one knows how many apples are in a single seed.

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There is nothing wrong with the church that discipleship won't cure. -Dallas Willard

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9 years

Steph Curry for Pope/Supreme Court Justice/President.

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The thoughts we think physically change our brain––it’s called neuroplasticity. Thoughts shape who we are. And that means when we think about God, when we involve him in our thought life daily, we change on both a neural and a spiritual level. The Word becomes flesh.

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Prayer isn’t giving direction to God; It’s getting direction from God.

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Thought for the day: Pray Vote Stay civil Be a non-anxious presence.

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God is the kind of being who, if you will place yourself in his hands, in trust, will ensure that nothing can ever happen to you tht will make you say, “I’m afraid” or “I don’t have enough” -D Willard

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Before the Fall Adam and Eve were sinless but not mature. God's primary goal for you isn't innocence, it's character.

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Courage is fear that has said it's prayers.

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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

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Let us remember that our sole occupation is to please God -Brother Lawrence

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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance. They are not two separate things. -Dallas Willard

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The view of Christianity as “doctrinal correctness alone” is, in practice, a path of non-seeking. The biblical life of faith is a path of constant seeking. D Willard

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People will forget what you do and what you say, but remember how you make them feel -Maya Angelou

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Better mate selection processes than The Bachelor: Lottery Alphabetical order Random assignment Musical chairs Draw straws Shoe size

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I am not anxious about my purpose in life because I only want to do God’s will -Brithwr Lawrence

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There is nothing that makes God happier than human beings,redeemed by grace, devoting their lives to the good of others & creation. -D Willard

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In a Christian context everything--yes everything--should serve to edify. Soren Kierkegaard Could change Twitter as we know it

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You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it -Albert Einstein

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Love seeks the good of what is loved. Desire seeks to have its way with what is desired. Dallas Willard

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The weaker we feel the harder we lean. The harder we lean the stronger we grow. -Joni Eareckson Tada

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Nothing eternal is at risk. Everything temporal is at risk.

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Why do morticians prefer cremation? It means they urn more. (I made that up. You can use it. DAD humor rocks)

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Modern critics are almost always right about what’s wrong, and almost always wrong about what’s right. -attributed to GK Chesterton

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Love is not a feeling, but a divine way of relating to others & oneself that permeates the self & restructures the world for good D Willard

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God is not now sitting off in some distant corner of the universe waiting to see if someone will pay attention to him. He is surrounded by unlimited glorious beings D Willard

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Keep your soul free. What matters most in life is not knowledge, but character. —A G Sertillanges

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God is the God of second chances, but that doesn’t quite capture the whole picture. God is a God of the resurrection. He takes what is dead and He breathes new life into it. If today you find yourself in exile, remember that God is still with you even when you feel alone.

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I began to live as if there were no one but God and myself in the world. -Brother Lawrence

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Christian community is not built on the presence of Christians. It's built on the presence of Christ.

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Hey—my new book ETERNITY IS NOW IN SESSION is now in print! Join the advance team—read & review!

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Jesus made many predictions about how the world would respond to his followers. Massive applause was not one of them.

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It is not knowledge but nervous uncertainty that makes people dogmatic, close-minded and hostile--which spokespeople for Christ must never be D Willard

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@mallelis @lkoturner do you people ever NOT TWEET? Your life motto: COGTWEETO ERGO SUM. (I'll explain it to you later. Don't strain.)

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The best way out is always through. —Robert Frost

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If we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying of ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God lies. H Melville

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To live by the Golden Rule brings infinitely more happiness than to live ruled by gold.

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What is it that makes human beings so precious? Just this: they are capable of being faithful to God, & promoting good in the world -D Willard

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Love seeks only one thing—the good of the one loved Thomas Merton

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The single most important thing in our mind is our idea of God, along with the images we associate with him. -Dallas Willard

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Salvation is less about getting you into heaven than getting heaven into you.

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We live in the only era of human history where people get stuck in traffic in their car to go ride a stationary bike in a gym.

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With Joni & Friends. 50 years in a wheelchair. Not sure how many people are really heroes; this is one.

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If sugar free soda has no sugar, do Evangelical Free churches have no evangelicals?

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“You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” -Walker Percy

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Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. People don't come out healed; they come out different. D Brooks

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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