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What Changed for Me? (Ashes to Beauty)
Friends recently asked me what changed in my life this past year that brought on so much blessing, healing, and crazy adventures of delight and joy in Jesus. I’ve been pondering this… “God, why have you shown such grace and mercy?” I have seen God do some INCREDIBLE things. (This summer, I watched God bring…
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What Makes a Healthy Church?
This was good… back to basics… (Go small to go big.) What makes a healthy church fellowship of disciples? Below are the slides and videos… Free download of slides: About Church – Kickstart seminar The Netherlands 2018 Healthy Fellowships Video 1: Practical – How to – Video 2: Source: Full playlist of Kickstart seminar…
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How do you enter God’s presence?
This question… “How do you enter God’s presence?”, is so beautiful and has been asked of me many times lately. The answer from God’s Word is so refreshing… 1. Be still. Get quiet to allow Him to lead you. Ps 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I…
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When They Don’t Change?
What do you do when a person in your life doesn’t change…? What if it’s your leadership, your employee, a friend, a client, a date, etc…? Here’s a great refresh from a message I heard long ago and again from a book I read a year ago. Thankfully, there are things you can do before…
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Life After ‘Church’?
Since stepping away from traditional institutional church and pastoral ministry, my journey has taken me on a sweet adventure. God has led my family away, not to find membership at another institutional church, though we had visited many and were warmly invited by many, but rather to take note of what God is up to……
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Unlearn in Order to Learn how to Disciple?
13 million people in 12 years through a disciple making movement?!!! (A few people in the Word started it all.) This morning, I got to group Skype with a missionary on the other side of the world and hear how fast the Gospel is spreading. He had to unlearn things in order to learn how…
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Supernatural Mothers
Oh, this weekend of Mother’s Day… I have always noticed that this day (and Father’s Day) carries with it special supernatural meaning because we are called to be family (and when that doesn’t happen, there’s deep pain.) I pray more folks are adopted into loving community this weekend because they experience El Shaddai (“well breasted…
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What Does Your Anger Look Like?
How good are you at your anger management? Where would you be on this scale…? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Anger Ladder ~ by Dr. Ross Campbell 1) Pleasant behavior; 2) Seeking resolution to the conflict; 3) Focusing anger on the source only; 4) Holding to the primary complaint, not to peripheral issues; 5) Thinking logically and constructively;…
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Character of Leaders?
I was pondering the C’s of leadership lately as many of us have been disappointed in leaders lacking the character to walk faithfully and courageously. Some people say that a leader should have character, charisma, commitment, courage, competence… But, have you ever noticed how God seems to never look for people with outstanding character to call them…
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Disciple making Movements?
If what you’re doing isn’t working, why keep doing it? (…Or at least add an additional track like one mega church in Texas did after doing the math. For that full story, see link at bottom of this post.) This past weekend, I enjoyed sitting in on a session with a gentleman serving overseas (cannot…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 