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Neighboring meets ripple-effect faith. I call it missional neighboring.
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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…
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Discipleship: How to Best Pass On a Way of Life
More than words, we need in-the-flesh examples of what faith grounded in truth and overflowing into action looks like. We want to see human interaction, with God and each other.
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Better Yourself vs. Be Nourished So You Overflow
Hold your cupped hands in reverent expectancy. He’ll tilt the pitcher, pour living water. And it will splash, sparking and alive, on your face. You’ll taste it through parted lips. It’ll reach your head, your…
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How to NOT Walk Away From Your Faith (3 Tips)
You and I are not passive acceptors of whatever happens. We go to battle with songs of praise and wisdom from tattered Bible pages and ruthless, trusting obedience. We lock arms with our people and…
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How to Trade Your Not-Enough for God’s Abundantly-Able
I want to be enough. Get it all the way right. Finish it on my own. But hold my not-enough in open hands. Release. Surrender. Dig deeper and discover more to let go. That’s hard.
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What You Need to Know about Rose of Sharon + Self-Talk
I read Song of Solomon 2:1 (“I am a rose of Sharon . . .”) and remember pulling hundreds of Rose of Sharon seedlings in the spring. They look like an army of twigs laughing…