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The first door

By Dave Henning / September 23, 2015

“So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.”- Hebrews 12:13 Today John Ortberg looks at the second reason we’re tempted to give up searching for the door when the wall seems insurmountable. 2.  God is not good enough.  Pastor Ortberg states we become afraid God will […]

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The door of the mind

By Dave Henning / September 22, 2015

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”- Hebrews 11:1 (ESV) “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal . . .”- Philippians 3:13-14 In Chapter 10 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg states that “at the […]

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Come to the well

By Dave Henning / September 21, 2015

Jesus said to her,, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.”- John 4:13-14 “No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the […]

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Just a whole lot of small

By Dave Henning / September 20, 2015

“Many doors that look large to us are small to God, and many doors that look small to us are very large to him.”- John Ortberg Today John Ortberg concludes his discussion of four reasons why some doors remain closed to us (Chapter 9, All the Places to Go) 4.  Doors remain closed because God […]

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A door marked ‘Grow’

By Dave Henning / September 19, 2015

“Often it may be that when the door marked ‘Go’ looks closed, it’s because there’s a door marked ‘Grow’ that’s wide open.”- John Ortberg In today’s blog, John Ortberg discusses the third reason why some doors remain closed to us. 3.  Doors close because I need to grow.  Pastor Ortberg tells of a time he […]

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Unanswered prayers

By Dave Henning / September 18, 2015

Today John Ortberg discusses the first two reasons why some doors remain closed to us (Chapter 9, All the Places to Go). 1.  Knocking at the wrong door.  Pastor Ortberg states that sometimes doors are closed because we want the wrong thing.  Throughout the Bible we see closed doors in response to wrong requests.  As […]

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Closed doors

By Dave Henning / September 17, 2015

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.”- Revelation 3:7 In Chapter 9 (“Thank God for Closed Doors) of All the Places to Go, John […]

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Our response to God

By Dave Henning / September 16, 2015

“For I know that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”- Jonah 4:2 John Ortberg concludes Chapter 8 of All the Places to Go by noting something about Jonah’s prayer (Jonah 4) that would have been very apparent to its Old Testament readers.  In Jonah 4:2, Jonah […]

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Lack of love

By Dave Henning / September 15, 2015

Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey.  And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”- Jonah 3:4 As John Ortberg continues Chapter 8 of All the Places to Go, he observes that the story of Jonah is “left on a strange, unresolved, discordant note”- on purpose.  Pastor Ortberg emphasizes […]

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Going down

By Dave Henning / September 14, 2015

“And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah.  And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.”- Jonah 1:17 John Ortberg continues Chapter 8 of All the Places to Go by noting that when the sailors hurled Jonah into the sea, the Lord “appointed” a great fish […]

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God’s yes is louder

By Dave Henning / September 13, 2015

The sea was getting rougher and rougher.  So they asked him [Jonah], “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”  “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm.  I know it is my fault that this great storm has come upon […]

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Pay attention

By Dave Henning / September 12, 2015

Today John Ortberg discusses the third reason that holds us back from saying “yes” to God’s open doors. 3.  Blindness to the door in front of us holds us back.  As Jonah’s boat sails out to sea, another door will open for him, although that door is heavily disguised.  When a great storm arises that […]

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