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The Life You've Always Wanted

By John Ortberg
Feb 25, 2026

The primary goal of “spiritual life” isn’t making sure people have a lot of knowledge about the Bible or know where they’ll go after they die. Those things are important, but the great goal of spiritual life is human transformation through the grace of God.

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Taken from The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People by John Ortberg. Copyright © 1997, 2002 by John Ortberg. Used by permission of Zondervan, www.zondervan.com.

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