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Neighboring meets ripple-effect faith. I call it missional neighboring.
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Here’s Why Thin Places Are Better Than Mountain-Top Faith Experiences
What I’m finding is that God is always here. It’s just my awareness of Him that is fickle. So rather than living for the mountain-top experiences and bracing for weary walks through the valleys, I’m…
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Ever Feel Like God Says Go—Then Closes the Door?
It can feel like God says GO—then closes the door. Makes a way only to press pause or send you in another direction. And here, on the brink of possibility and surrender, you question whether…
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The Truth About Wrapping Paper, Pretty Bows, and Heros
Missional neighboring is telling the middle parts of our stories while they’re still unfolding and we’re still growing. Holding the grace, hope, strength, wisdom God gives in open hands so it can spill over. Naming…
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When You Can’t See How God’s Good Right Now
The things spinning and unraveling for you can derail you. Or they can teach you the nature of God. Your questions, your doubt, your anger—they can force distance between you and God. But if you…
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How to Make Your Self-Critical Voice Stop Bossing You Around
The critical voice in your head is brutal, insistent, loud. But it bossed you around for long enough. Quieted your voice. Kept your door closed and your relationships shallow.
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Two Trajectory-Setting Questions to Ask Yourself Right Now
Here, teetering on that thin line of what’s present, is where we remember redemption, trace evidence of a faithful God, acknowledge scars fresh or still tender.