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 John gave us access to the Willow Creek archives to find new, previously unpublished material that will speak specifically to this target audience.
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A 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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Now What?
By John Ortberg
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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
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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
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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
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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