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How to Navigate Controlling People and Places?
How do you navigate a controlling person, family, or community? It’s a question many of us wrestle with—and it can feel overwhelming. Control is heavy. It’s stifling. And often, it leaves us feeling powerless. But here’s a perspective that changes everything: See the controlling person not as a monster, but as a scared child.
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What If We Learned the Way Jesus Taught?
Lately, I’ve been pondering the way Jesus taught compared to how we tend to learn in our modern culture. It’s a striking contrast. We live in an age of information overload—where we can scroll, swipe, and gather endless facts and opinions in a matter of seconds. Our culture tends to value the quick fix, the “top…
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How to Pray for a Bully?
As many of you know, my heart is to always go higher when it comes to praying for difficult people and situations. Otherwise, we will be tempted to be in fear and offended. Hence, the hidden treasure inside the recent book. So, how do we pray for and influence someone who is bullying? I drew…
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The school that completely transformed.
A sample story of transformational keyswhich TRANSFORMED a community… “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have ~ Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3: 11 NLT) A teacher from another country asked to meet for a private Zoom session. She came with a huge heart full of grief for her…
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Author Murray Dueck shares about the value of dreams through God’s eyes
I recently had the joy of interviewing Murray Dueck who has been a mentor, teacher and such an encourager to me. Enjoy! Murray has trained thousands of people in learning to hear Gods’ voice through local classes, seminars, and online training through Samuel’s Mantle Prophetic Training School of which I got to be apart of…
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A Pastor’s Confession
This is my confession. I’m sorry… To all the people who I once pastored in an institutional church… I am sorry that I didn’t know then what I know now. My church and Bible school experience did not adequately prepare me to walk you to complete freedom in Jesus’ name. Nor did I disciple you how…
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Pastor, How Do You Define Yourself?
Many years ago I connected with Ed Underwood (and I have referenced his resources before on this blog). He recently wrote this post… (which is addressed to pastors but is for ALL OF US in ministry….) Pastor, the Shocking Contrast Between Legalism and Grace. We can choose to define ourselves as pastors by what we’re…
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Church? Spectators vs Participants
Dear Church, Are you a spectator or a participant in building God’s kingdom? Years of sitting in traditional church has not prepared us to be the church in the manner described in the New Testament. We have been taught to come. To sit. To watch and listen to what others have prepared. (Someone described it…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 