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Neighboring meets ripple-effect faith. I call it missional neighboring.
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What Happens When Light Illuminates and Nourishes
Jesus is Light. It emanates from His being. The closer we stay, the brighter the space around us and the path before us, just like Ellie’s singing in her captivating voice.
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How to Face Risk When You Want to Run Away
When you’ve answered most of the prompts in Jennifer Dukes Lee’s guided journal, Stuff I’d Only Tell God, you’re left with the ones you’ve been avoiding. But I wasn’t raised to stop before the end,…
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How to Embrace the Unexpected When You Get What You Pray For
Then God interrupts, as I’ve known Him to do. Corporate restructuring, says my husband when he calls me. Effective immediately.
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How to Pray Scripture When Your Heart is Heavy
I wasn’t prepared to read the Psalm drenched in tears and pleading prayers. In the Bible I held close this time last year, it’s barely legible through pen marks and smudges. But in The Voice,…
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Four Habits That Will Make Your Desire for God Grow
We want to get it, don’t we? Faith that’s not safe but real. Conversation with Jesus that is constant yet effortless. Honesty we know is welcome. A passion to know God intense enough to wake…
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One Surprising Way to Clean Up Your Speech
We honor God and build each other up with our speech, not in our strength and self-resolve, but by His empowering Spirit at work in our lives. Our job is not to tight-fist our lives…