Book of The Month:Week 3 Highlights of "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" by John Ortberg

Chapter 4: Walking on Water
  • Is it worth the risk?
  • God really will honor truth-telling
  • If I am going to experience a greater measure of God's power in my life, it will usually involve the first-step principle. It will usually begin by my acting in faith-trusting God enough to take a step of obedience.
  • Faith is not the sort of thing that can be acquired by trying harder
  • A great story told by Martin Luther on page 81
  • We might be comfortable in our current job, but anxious about the possiblility that God wants to do some vocational realignment
  • The indicator of fear
  • The Indicator of frustration
  • The Indicator of Compassion
  • The Indicator of Prayer

Chapter 5: Seeing the Wind
  • Resilient People Exercise Control Rather Than Passively Resign
  • Resilient People Remain Committed to Their Values When Tempted to Compromise
  • Resilient People Find Meaning and Purpose in the Storm
  • Study questions that sticks out for me -
    • What role have problems played in your growth in the past?
    • How, with regard to a particular problem, could you move from passivity to exercising control and initiative?
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