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March 9, 2018 Christian Meditation: Filling, Not Emptying Christian meditation focuses on filling our minds with what is good, lovely, and true rather than emptying them, as Archbishop Anthony Bloom describes it as 'straight thinking under God's guidance.'

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July 16, 2021 When a Leader’s Soul Is Uncared For But eventually there are things one simply can’t push through, as anyone who’s slammed into the brick wall of human limitation will tell you. In reality, true rest leads to resilience. Sabbath…

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June 27, 2025 Elbow to Elbow

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April 4, 2025 Fresh Forgiveness

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January 3, 2025 Are we settling for less?

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August 18, 2023 Learned in the Desert Here’s how I've come to think of sin: it's anything that, given enough time, leads to inner decay. And God wants us—the creatures who bear his likeness—to be completely free and alive.

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July 15, 2022 The Pace of Jesus As with any good principle that becomes popular in certain circles, I’m concerned that “ruthlessly eliminating hurry” becomes something we love to talk about but rarely live into.

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May 27, 2022 With Us In Our Suffering Whenever senseless tragedy tempts me to think of God as unsafe, irrational, even irresponsible—"Why create free-willed beings, Lord, when you knew this was the cost?"—there is one thing that keeps me…

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November 6, 2020 Character “Our character is that internal, overall structure of the self that is revealed by our long-run patterns of behavior and from which our actions more or less automatically arise.”

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September 4, 2020 Defrosted Over the years, pain and disappointment can turn down the soul’s thermostat until, before you know it, your heart is cold and hesitant to take the risks required by love. It’s like the frog in a pot…

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May 8, 2020 The Way Things Really Are As a professor of philosophy and a student of Jesus, Dallas Willard spent his life exploring and transcribing reality to help the rest of us access it more deeply. Seven years ago today his knowledge…

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May 1, 2020 Honest Self-Examination Minus the Shame When sin is the focus of our self-examination, despair follows. But when we, guided by the Holy Spirit, look honestly at our sin while maintaining focus on Jesus—on his presence and love toward…