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Meeting Jesus in Your Story
How connecting with Jesus at every stage of emotional development can bring deep, lasting healing. A reader recently posed a beautiful and thoughtful question, something along these lines: “Do you have any input on how we express and experience emotions differently depending on our level of maturity? For example: an infant cries and feels helpless…
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How Emotions Show Up In Our Lives
I’ve been thinking a lot about emotions this month as I continue to walk people through them and inviting Jesus to heal. Further, I too found myself feeling a ton of emotions as I had to process several events and environments and therefore, I walked through this myself. An emotion wheel is helpful to see…
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God Still Speaks. You Can Hear Him. (Greatest lessons I’ve learned so far.)
One of my team recently asked me this question: “If you only had the opportunity to only share one 5 minute message before you leave this earth, what would it be?” Here it is… My heart message: God still speaks.And you can hear Him. And His voice saves lives! Here’s what I mean… You Were…
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When the World Speeds Up,Slow Down and Listen
What AI experts are just now discovering, God has been inviting us into all along. “Be still, and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10 Recently, I came across an interview featuring two experts discussing the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and how it is already reshaping the way we work, connect, think, and…
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Why Hearing God’s Voice Feels So Hard (And What Changes When You Practice It With Others)
There’s something worth noticing about how Jesus discipled people. He didn’t just give lectures. He didn’t hand out scrolls and say, “Go study these and I’ll check in later.” He walked with His disciples…
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Countdown to the Cross and Open Grave! (Lent 2026)
I love the Lenten season! 🙂 Passover (some call it ‘Easter’) is the most important event in our world history, and yet it can sneak up on us. We often spend so much time focusing on Christmas, that we forget Part 2, …the dying to the old self-part and receiving new life in Christ! Christmas…
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Making Room: Clearing Clutter to Restore Joy
The end of the year always seems to invite reflection—and for me, it also invites a good, honest purge. Not just of physical clutter, but of emotional and mental clutter as well. This month, I’ve been letting go of things that are no longer helpful or life-giving. Some of that looked very practical: releasing books I’ve already…
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How We Tend to Incorrectly Treat Believers
When Jesus Spoke to Crowds—vs. With Disciples Recently, this simple statement came out in a conversation: “What Jesus did with pre-believers was preach to crowds.What Jesus did with His disciples was engage and interact with them.And yet, we often do for believers what Jesus did for pre-believers—with only one person doing all the talking.” Wow!…
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The Kind of Leader God Chooses
Over the past few days, a persistent theme has been seen in my daily time in Scripture: God gives grace to the humble. It is comforting because it invites us into rest, and confronting because it asks us to release our grip on self-reliance. James writes it plainly: “God opposes the proud but gives grace…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 