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    Now What?: God's Guide to Life for Graduates
    Now What?: God's Guide to Life for Graduates
    Now What?: God's Guide to Life for Graduates
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    Now What?: God's Guide to Life for Graduates

    By John Ortberg

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    John Ortberg speaks with humor, insight, and wisdom to graduates facing the work world or pursuing additional education. John gave us access to the Willow Creek archives to find new, previously unpublished material that will speak specifically to this target audience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateOct 11, 2011
    ISBN9780310870401
    Now What?: God's Guide to Life for Graduates
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    John Ortberg

    John Ortberg is teaching pastor of Menlo Church and author of many books, including God Is Closer Than You Think.

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      A nice little book with lots of thought provoking ideas on how to lead a good life for graduates or anyone else. I'll probably read the book more than once. It's printed on shiny paper which made some pages difficult for my old eyes to read.

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    Now What? - John Ortberg

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    ZONDERVAN

    Now What?

    By John Ortberg

    Copyright © 2004 by The Zondervan Corporation

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    EPub Edition © APRIL 2011 ISBN: 978-0-310-87040-1

    ISBN 0-310-80282-2

    All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Version, (North American Edition). Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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    Material excepted from the sermons of John Ortberg, 1997-2003, The Willowcreek Association.

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    Contents

    Congratulations! This Is Your Moment,

    work.biz

    Do it with Passion.

    Work is Essential

    Your Calling is Calling: Go Find it

    Money Isn’t Everything

    Work in Jesus’ name

    How to Keep Your Job

    godandyou.org

    Eliminate Hurry

    Live in God’s Love

    Start Each Day With God

    Live Immersed in the Presence of God

    Be a Jesus Follower

    Spend Time Alone

    Pray About Everything

    Trust and Obey

    Stop Hiding

    relationships.net

    Stay Connected

    Join a Church Group

    Choose to Serve Others

    Practice Diversity

    Gather Together In Worship

    Cultivate Friendships

    Pray

    Do Small Things

    Thank God For Sex!

    Save Sex For Marriage

    Live for God’s Approval

    Watch Your Temper

    livingthegoodlife.com

    living on Purpose

    Sing

    Don’t Judge

    Be Joyful

    Get Enough Sleep

    Don’t Worry

    Eat in Joy

    Think Excellent Thoughts

    Read a Book

    Hang On

    Do What Needs to Be Done–Now!

    Be Content

    Love Your Enemies

    Live in God’s Peace

    Use Your Time Well

    About the Publisher

    Congratulations!

    This Is Your Moment,

    Ibelieve the greatest moment of your life is this moment right now. It’s this tick of the clock, because this moment is where God is.

    The God who made the psalmist say,

    "This is the day that the LORD has made;

    let us rejoice and be glad in it"

    has made this moment just for you. It is this day,

    this moment, not the one that’s gone, not the one

    that’s coming.

    People can lose their whole lives by being scared about some moment in the future. People waste years being nostalgic about some moment that’s gone in the past. Don’t spend your moment wishing you could occupy somebody else’s moment—because it doesn’t belong to you, and it never will.

    I believe you ought to expect this moment to be the greatest moment of your life. Not because it’s easy. Not because you’re so strong or so clever. Not because it’s going to be a Kodak moment (although your parents, grandparents and friends will try real hard to make it one), but because somewhere about 10,000 miles away from here, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, there is an empty tomb. And if Jesus is not laying in that tomb, then where is he? He’s right here, right now, because this moment is where Jesus is. And right now is your little slice of eternity when it is fueled with God.

    work.biz

    Do it with

    Passion.

    God gives everybody work to do, whether you get paid for it or not, whether you’re a volunteer, whether you do work in an office, at a church, whether you go to school, whether you do it at home, in the neighborhood or in an office. God made us to contribute, to create, to produce value and make the world a better place.

    Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

    1 Corinthians 15:58 (NKJV)

    Work itself is part of what God does. God creates, and he made us in his image to do work, to create. That’s a real good thing. And God says over and over again in Scripture, I want you to excel at what you do. I want you to abound. I want you to take the gifts and talents that I’ve given you and develop into the fullest potential you’re capable of. I want you to discover the deepest passions that are hardwired into you, and I want you to fan them into flames. I want you to make a difference in this world.

    Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

    Ecclesiastes 9:10

    The very best thing we can hope for is, when we get to the end of our lives, to be able to say to God, "I abounded in the

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