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Neighboring meets ripple-effect faith. I call it missional neighboring.
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The Truth About Gentleness Most People Miss
Gentleness is not entitlement, self-confidence, or stubbornness. It’s trust with wild abandon. Stilling and abiding. Listening and responding. Letting go of our need to be seen as right, capable, worthy. Boldly declaring God is worthy…
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How To Survive the Wait When You’re Also Mourning
There’s a side of waiting that touches the rawness of grief. We’re impatient, we’ll joke, but many of the things we’re waiting for aren’t the sort of thing you really laugh off.
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How To Create a Surprising Pre-Condition for Lasting Happiness
We’re not talking about artificial or fleeting happiness here. This is toowayhon bliss. Pure, uncontainable delight. Knowing and being fully known by God. Forever-access to Him.
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How To Be More Neighborly When You Feel Inadequate
We don’t apologize when we stop to chat with the first neighbor we see outside and stay for an hour. Because we’re hungry for connection. Because life is richer when we do life with our…
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On Pride, Friendships, and Doing It Better
I see beneath good intentions an undercurrent of pride. That I could do my job better than anyone else. That my 30-some pages of How It’s Done would actually be helpful.
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Red Flags, Bonafide Wins, and Not Being Enough
True wins don’t make us trust God less or need each other less. They’re not negated by someone’s else winning. These wins build bridges, not walls, knit us together not drive wedges between us.