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Newfangled (Post 3 in the Third Chapter Spiritual Disciplines Series)
How do you respond to newfangled ideas in the church? Has the term newfangled sprung to mind recently? That’s a sure sign you’re ready to institute this spiritual discipline. Our generation faced extreme resistance from the established generation when we advocated for change in the church. Can we be any different? Can we be gray-haired …[ read more ]
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Hiding from People I Love (Post 2 in the Third Chapter Spiritual Disciplines Series)
The best people annoy me. It’s admittedly my failing, not theirs. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, I’m mostly able to avoid eye rolling, sighing, glaring, and raising my eyebrows in group settings, but that’s testimony to His work, not mine. Hey, I enjoy my own company. I agree with myself all the time and frequently …[ read more ]
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A Planet in Active Labor
Today the world already feels too full of words for me to add mine to the noise of any one subject. Well, maybe one. Jesus told us that the beginning of the end of the age would be like the beginning of birth pangs when a woman is in labor. During that stage, early labor, …[ read more ]