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To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.

Wherever you are, be all there.

Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because ...

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Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the batt...

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Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repe...

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Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle ...

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Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no la...

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Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, an...

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Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

Whatever's on your mind is also on God's heart.

Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I w...

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Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say ...

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Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

Sincere doubts, handled properly, can become a gift.

Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget t...

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Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must ...

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It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is o...

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The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

...If we believe that God wants us happy above all else, rather than acknowledging that our role is ...

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The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.

The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on...

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The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn't Exist

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...

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But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Will you have the courage to obey the voice of God?

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Godliness with contentment is rare.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the jo...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's sti...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freein...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to m...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ...

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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if someti...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in ...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of wha...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Where your money goes, there your heart follows.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

He blesses us so we can be different.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offerin...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no se...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Don't be afraid to be weird for being wise.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

He desperately wants you to know Him. So many people believe in God, but they don't really know Him....

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spi...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

In God's economy, you may even harvest a crop in places where you didn't plant seed. When you're gen...

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We don't even know how to rest anymore.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst perso...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...

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Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you d...

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I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.

Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

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Craig Groeschel

Pastor

Born: 1967-12-02

Died: N/A

Craig Groeschel (born December 2, 1967) is an American author, speaker, and the founding and senior pastor of Life.Church, a multi-campus church with over 80 weekly worship experiences in 13 locations. He, his wife, Amy, and their six children live in the Edmond, Oklahoma area where Life Church began in 1996. He is author of It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It, Chazown, Going All the Way, Confessions of a Pastor, and The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living as if He Doesn't Exist (released on March 30, 2010).More