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Why Bother Having Hard Conversations?
It’s been about six months now that my latest book, The Art of Hard Conversations: Biblical Tools for the Tough Talks that Matter has been released and God is using it to release many believers to share their faith, speak truth into hard situations, and be present for others facing tough times. My prayer is that readers like you will be as convinced as I am that we …[ read more ]
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One Bold Question I Dare You to Ask
I spend a lot of time thinking about other people – thinking about them and praying for them. Doesn’t that sound lovely and spiritual? It’s not. To be fair, I’m not completely unloving – to the credit of the work Jesus has done in my life these fifty-some years, but my soul is quite the …[ read more ]
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God Just Can’t Leave Well Enough Alone
The apostle Paul stretched out, waterlogged, on an unfamiliar beach blinking in the white sun surrounded by pieces of ship and others not fortunate enough to open their eyes again on this shore. Peter caught by Paul, red-faced and ashamed, facing correction for spurning the Gentile Christians around the Jewish Christians who might judge him, facing something worse now – the …[ read more ]
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Discomfort Ye My People – Or Why Guitar Players Make Effective Christians
My development as a guitar player is seriously arrested. I am a guitar player. I own one. In fact, I own two – a six-string acoustic and a twelve-string. I’ve played on church music teams. I can pick it up, finger some basic chords, and strum. By sixth grade, I could play simple worship songs …[ read more ]