Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
John OrtbergThe Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
John OrtbergThe miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
John OrtbergIf ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.
John Ortberg