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August 25, 2023 Awakening Effect A great book can have a similar awakening effect. It can settle the anxious soul and unsettle the complacent one. It can open a fresh perspective and loose a tongue-tied heart. It can ignite a fire…

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September 20, 2019 Redeemed Pain And then, if healing delays, we choose to be present without platitudes or presumption to those who are in pain, as Richard Foster encourages. And though these words are probably best unspoken to the…

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February 7, 2025 There’s a crack in everything Real repentance begins with being raw before God. Honest prayer opens the way for transformation and loving others well.

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August 10, 2018 Pray Like You Are Going to Die I even tried the recommended exercise: pray as if you're going to die before the end of the prayer. I couldn't get myself to believe it. Yet I know from experience that such books are precisely the…

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June 29, 2018 The Big Picture Study is our focus discipline this month and today's digest has several essays from the With-God Life Bible which we hope aids your study of Scripture. They provide a panoramic view of the Bible that…

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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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January 3, 2025 Are we settling for less?

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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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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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February 25, 2022 “Words matter more than we imagine.” McEntyre believes words are more than just delivery boxes for ideas; the words themselves can be the idea. This means that when an older word like prudent or noble “falls into disuse, the experience…