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Healing Prayer For Harmful Memories
Have you ever seen something that brought you distress or even traumatized you? Do you have any harmful images you’ve internalized that periodically come back to upset you? What do you do with these harmful memories and images? Jesus is the greatest healer including from trauma! While in prayer, invite Jesus to come and deposit…
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Prayers: Healing Heart Wounds
How can you receive healing in your heart wounds? If this can be helpful for others, I’m sharing the goods! 🙂 This below is some material that was given to me after I was prayed over by others for 3 hours to break word curses spoken over me that perhaps accumulated over 10 years of…
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What’s next Papa?!
“This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going…
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When We Silence Women
What happens when we silence women, “on behalf of God”…? “What we lose by excluding the distinctively feminine from ‘official’ ministries of teaching and preaching is of incalculable value. That loss is one of a few fundamental factors which account for the astonishing weakness of ‘the Church’ in the contemporary context.” (Dallas Willard) What women bring…
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Are you a dreamer?
In my time of resting, God continues to invite me to think outside the box. I feel like He keeps inviting me to be hungry for more. Here’s what I’m learning about dreams (the long forgotten language for many)… thanks to Murray Dueck. (A link to his book can be found at the bottom. Here’s an intro…)…
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9 Changes to Make Before a Church Dies
My heart ached when I read this post from Thom Rainer… It triggered pain that I have known… I pray for churches across North America (my heart lies there)… “..Many of our congregations must change. They must change or they will die. I call these churches “the urgent church.” Time is of the essence. If…
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From Word Curses to Blessing – Uncanny Story
Is life a bit nuts for you? …with people’s word curses rather than words of blessing? Do you live in a series of uncanny events? This is my uncanny story. First I needed some Biblical research… {This book pictured takes me back to my Old Testament prophets class in Bible school and my professor weeping over…
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Be Still :)
Be still and know that God is God and… you are not. This truth is the best thing you can fully embrace. He holds the world together, not you. 🙂 What He wants to do in and through you is far greater – if you trust Him – than if you try to control and…
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My Changing Mind on Church: Learning to Fly
(This post was originally written in 2017. Wow… so much has happened since!) My mind has been changing about church since about 2010. After 10 years of pastoral ministry, I was wrecked, but in a good way… The mother bird pushes it’s young out of the nest to learn to fly… I think I didn’t want to…
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I’m in detox
After reading these two pages which were written back in 1987, I am pondering again yet another confirmation of how much I needed (still need) a detox… and full repair… (From Danny Lehman’s book: “Bringin’ ‘Em Back Alive“) Constant brainstorming meetings year, after year, over who (men / women) and what ‘methods’ of disciplemaking is right…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 