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My Experience with Godly Affection
Many struggle to muster the desire to spend time with God. This struggle is a normal aspect of our sanctification. Sanctification is a big word that communicates the change process which is...
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FREEDOM!
I have a Brave Heart flashback consisting of Mel Gibson screaming that word every time I think about it. It is actually a pretty common word in the Bible. I find that sort of “God funny” because we...
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4 Ways to Engage Your Heart
Our hearts are most often engaged through an experience. It is very possible for us to know many facts about something and to be emotionally unengaged about it. I have three wonderful children. I...
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Merry Christmas!
Blogging feels a bit like dancing on a stage while being blind folded. You’re wondering how I know this to be true. I’ll save that post for 2014. Reading blogs is largely an anonymous activity. I...
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How to Wait Actively
It feels like we spend so much of our lives waiting. Whether as a child waiting to hear if we made the team, or waiting for our driver’s license, waiting for college, waiting for freedom, waiting to...
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The Birds are Composing
On a recent Sunday we sang a song titled, Your Love is Strong. I’ve worshiped with that song many many times. However, one line hit me differently on this particular Sunday. I look out the window the...
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Arrogance in Missions
When my wife and I began life with our first child it was an adjustment, to say the least. We were trying our best to navigate the new challenges of midnight feedings, purposeless screaming, and...
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Are You Reacting to Your Parents’ Religion?
I recently finished reading a book titled, Lincoln’s Battle with God: A President’s Struggle with Faith and What It Meant for America. I really enjoyed the book. I have not read exhaustively on...
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Loving Our Sons into Leadership
The last post highlighted many of the similar principles with which we love our sons and daughters. There are nuanced differences, but these differences fall short of fully loving our sons into their...
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Emotion vs. Intellect: Another Battle of Preference?
Church is something that becomes very personal, at least here in the West. Too often church also becomes a battlefield where the bloodshed of opposing opinions takes place. History tells us of...
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