“But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door of effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.”- 1 Corinthians 16:9 “Easy doesn’t come from the outside. It comes from the inside.”- John Ortberg In Chapter 4 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg presents the third common […]
“God is a door opener, but he is not a celestial enabler.”- John Ortberg “Even as he [God] chose us in him [Christ] before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.”- Ephesians 1:4 Today John Ortberg addresses the second common myth about doors in Chapter 4 of All […]
“Faith is not about me getting what I want in my outer world; it’s about God getting what he wants in my inner world.”- John Ortberg “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.”- Zechariah 4:10 (NLT) John Ortberg continues Chapter 4 of All the Places to Go […]
In Chapter 4 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg discusses statements people think are in the Bible but are not to be found there. One is: When God closes a door, he opens a window.” Pastor Ortberg points out that Mother Superior from The Sound of Music says that. The Bible says: “What […]
John Ortberg concludes Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go by stating that there are times when we become so obsessed with vocational open doors that we’re blind to relational open doors. Yet, every heart comes with a door. Pastor Ortberg emphasizes that one of the great gifts of life is having the door […]
As John Ortberg continues Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go, he posits that actually noticing people leads to open doors. He states: “Doors open when I actually notice and care about people I might otherwise overlook.” Pastor Ortberg relates a story he read about a woman who locked her keys in her car. […]
“When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.”- Ruth 1:6 In Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg reflects on the story of Naomi and her daughters-in-law, Orpah and […]
John Ortberg continues Chapter 3 of All the Places to Go with a discussion of what-if? people. What-if? people lead imaginative lives. A what-if? attitude is their response to ideas and events. Pastor Ortberg adds: “What-if” is a big idea, as big as God, for it is the practice of God.” John adds that God […]
John Ortberg begins Chapter 3 (“No Mo FOMO: Overcoming the Fear of Missing Out”) of All the Places to Go with the statement that “ironically, it’s vulnerability, not invincibility, that leads to the human connections we really hunger for.” In contrast, the epidemic of using social media sites to compare our lives to others has […]
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.”- Matthew 17:20 “It is better to have little faith in a big God than to have big faith in a little God.”- John Ortberg John Ortberg concludes Chapter 2 of […]
“When I walk through an open door, I often learn truths about myself that I would never have learned if I’d stayed on the other side.”- John Ortberg As John Ortberg continues Chapter 2 of All the Places to Go, he observes that when we go through open doors, we have to trust that God […]
“The divine ‘go’ comes into every life, but we must be willing to leave before we’re willing to go.”- John Ortberg In Chapter 2 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg notes that there’s an entire field of study in the social sciences based on the psychology of regret. Regret changes over the course […]