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    You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You
    You Can't Take It with You
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    You Can't Take It with You

    By John Ortberg

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    We all have stuff—and stuff is important. Our homes, jobs, hobbies, wardrobe, and toys make this life more enjoyable. But if our entire perspective is colored by our “things” we lose sight of the temporal nature of all that we have. This easy-to-read gift book leads the reader to consider what’s ultimately important and encourages a healthier perspective on the materialistic nature of our lives. Content is excerpted from When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box by John Ortberg.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateDec 15, 2009
    ISBN9780310868408
    You Can't Take It with You
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    John Ortberg

    John Ortberg is the senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (MPPC) in the San Francisco Bay Area. His bestselling books include Soul Keeping, Who Is This Man?, and If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat. John teaches around the world at conferences and churches, writes articles for Christianity Today and Leadership Journal, and is on the board of the Dallas Willard Center and Fuller Seminary. He has preached sermons on Abraham Lincoln, The LEGO Movie, and The Gospel According to Les Miserables. John and his wife Nancy enjoy spending time with their three adult children, dog Baxter, and surfing the Pacific. You can follow John on twitter @johnortberg or check out the latest news/blogs on his website at www.johnortberg.com.

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      You Can't Take It with You - John Ortberg

      Stuff, Stuff And

      More Stuff

      We all have stuff. We see it, want it, buy it, display it, insure it, and compare it with other people’s stuff. We talk about whether or not they have too much stuff; we envy or pass judgment on other people’s collections of stuff. We collect our own little pile. We imagine that if that pile got big enough, we would feel successful or secure.

      That’s how you keep score in Monopoly, and that’s how our culture generally keeps score as well.

      You get a house, then you have to get stuff to put in it. You keep getting more stuff, and you need a bigger house. A house, said comedian George Carlin, is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. Some people have actually survived without owning one.

      There are now more than 30,000 self-storage facilities in the country offering over a billion square feet for people to store their stuff. In the 1960s, this industry did not exist. We now spend $12 billion a year just to pay someone to store our extra stuff! It’s larger than the music

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