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Dietrich Bonhoeffer named the disease of a comfortable church: “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring…
Grace · Discipleship · The Cross
Bonhoeffer · Luke 9 · Romans 6
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Small People and Great People
Mark Twain
Mark Twain advised: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” The distinction is simple and searching. Some voices shrink us. Others expand the sense of what is possible. Choosing which voices we stay near is itself a form of discipleship.
How you’d preach it
Encouraging for anyone facing discouragement from critics. Short enough to land cleanly.
- Calling
- Courage
- Discipleship
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