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June 18, 2021 How Beautiful It Is When… The Ministry Team has modeled to me healthy ecumenism. Its members have shown me how to listen to other perspectives, how to come together even if there are secondary matters of disagreement, and…

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May 18, 2018 Holy Hunger Do you see what God wants to bestow on us if we'd only give him the room to do so? He withholds no good thing from us, but sometimes our lives are too full to receive it. Fasting is a way to make…

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June 16, 2023 Hiding from God Authentic followers of Jesus Christ—like Julian and countless others—guide us to the Teacher by sharing with us what they have learned.

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September 23, 2022 Deep Cuts One guard against this shadow side is to read books by followers of Jesus outside the circles we naturally gravitate toward. We need old books alongside the new, books by women and men, books by…

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April 8, 2022 A Profound Sense of Being Very Small Well-written prayers—like the Psalms and the ones Underhill collected in her journal from saints through the ages—can draw our hearts and minds to God and give us a healthy sense of smallness.

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January 31, 2020 Permission to Be Honest It’s easy when talking to God to slip into prayer-speak. All of a sudden a strange tone of voice emerges and theological words flow freely. Even the person praying can seem detached from his own…

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August 17, 2018 Why Do Ministries Lose Their Founding Vision? How do we maintain the vision laid out by a "founder" (or first pastor, etc) without "the loss of the inward fire of vision to the outward accretions of mission or ministry?"

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April 4, 2025 Fresh Forgiveness

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November 1, 2024 Reordering

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July 19, 2024 A Heart Awake

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March 15, 2024 The Bread of Mercy Not forgiving others leads to bitterness. Bitterness is a hairball clogging the pipe of God’s life flowing into and through us, a chain that binds us, a distorted lens that blinds us. “We don’t…

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June 3, 2022 Down in the Same Center Sometimes this word is used in non-Christian contexts as a sort of mystical alignment with ourselves or “the universe.” But here I mean it in the sense of being in agreement with God, of walking…