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Your Heart is Revealed Under Pressure.
I remember an Elvis Presley song and a line that sings… “Sweetened through the ages just like wine…” I’m pondering how going through trials and hardship makes one sweeter. I was listening to a woman the other day share about a preacher she heard and something was missing. I asked if he was a green…
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Who is My Shepherd?
Disclaimer: My thoughts are all over the place. They are like birds flying everywhere. 🙂 I’ve been processing a moral failure of a long time mega church pastor and watching the church fall apart. This man was a mentor to me from a far in many ways. It was because of him and his wife’s…
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How to Walk in Freedom!
Recently, I had the honour of leading another person to freedom from addiction and depression. (I am a Life Coach and Spiritual Director which often entails an inner healing session.) Then, we talked about what abundant life really is. Full life in Christ doesn’t start when you die and go to heaven. It starts now…
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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…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 