31-Day Proverbs Challenge
Following Jesus is incredibly personal, but it was never meant to be done alone. Jesus is honored by our intentional pursuit of Him...
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- Feb 1
- 3 min
Navigating the Year Ahead (part 3)
How do we view others? Some people walk into a room and feel alive with the buzz of people, energized at the potential of new friends!...
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- Jan 15
- 3 min
Navigating the Year Ahead (part 2)
“When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about...
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- Jan 1
- 3 min
Navigating the Year Ahead (part 1)
Planned or unplanned we find ourselves at the end of each year looking back wondering and asking, what happened? What did I accomplish?...
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- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
Why "Merry" Christmas?
Have you ever wondered why we say “Merry Christmas” instead of Happy Christmas? We say Happy Birthday, Happy Easter, and Happy Mother’s...
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- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
When They Don't Care
How do we impact a culture that less and less cares about what we have to say as Christians? Short answer: We live like Jesus. If that is...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
Women Pastors, Elders, Preachers?
What do you do when an issue does not have clarity in scripture? Or better yet, what do you do when opposing views believe the issue is...
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- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
4 Tips to Better Bible Reading
How do you read the bible? When you open your bible on your phone or the one that sits on your shelf, what runs through your mind? Are...
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- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
6 Ways to Celebrate Christmas amid Over-Commercialization
What if, instead of being frustrated at the over-commercialization of the Christmas season, we saw it as an opportunity? I get the idea...
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- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
Deconstruction of Faith
I am meeting more and more people who feel like spiritual orphans. They grew up in a church, they went off to college, started a career,...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 4 min
Abuse in Church
Do I share my story? Do I share friend’s stories? Do I pick on a denomination? Do I pull a quote from the New York Times? Sadly, abuse of...
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- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Bible vs Jesus
I follow Jesus, not the bible. Obviously. Yet, even as I write that it causes an unease and I am sure for many who have grown up in...
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- Aug 15, 2021
- 4 min
Grace Expected
Have you asked others for grace? Or like me, have you received an email that said, “thanks for your grace” as a not-so-subtle way of...
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- Jul 1, 2021
- 2 min
Flipped: Reputation
How much time and energy do I spend wondering what others think of me? There is something inside all of us that wants others to think...
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- May 1, 2021
- 3 min
Is Wisdom Boring?
We often subconsciously assume that our pastors and church staff are wise and thus our expectation is they won’t fail us. We don’t really...
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- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
The Best Bible Translation
Which translation do you use? What is the point of this question? Is it genuine? Or, does it come with some agenda seeking to prove why...
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- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
3 indispensable characteristics to look for in a local church.
I recently had to "find" another church. Through a complicated and compelling pile of circumstances I found myself looking. I also found...
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- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
5 People Worth Following
You may be familiar with Rick Warren or John Piper, but digging a little deeper here are a few names of people with less followers and...
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- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
Alone. Re-Fueled.
You are too busy not to schedule alone time. It sounds counter intuitive, but you are too busy to avoid alone time. It is often the first...
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