loving others
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Three Pastors Tell All
Pastors were asked, “What’s your best piece of advice for someone who wants to become a pastor?” One answered… If you can do anything else, do it! The pay ain’t great, criticism is over the top, and in this age when everybody just downloads podcasts of their favourite preacher, you don’t stand a chance. However,…
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Our Broken Love, God’s Perfect Love
“No fathers or mothers can love their children perfectly. No husbands or wives can love each other with unlimited love. There is no human love that is not broken somewhere… God’s love for us is everlasting. That means that God’s love for us existed before we were born and will exist after we have died.…
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It Goes On!
I’m preparing my Sunday lesson on Tabitha (a woman with a heart to serve and who’s life was cut short but was raised again to advance God’s Good News), before I go to a young woman’s funeral. Glad, so very glad for God’s gracious resurrection that defeated sin and death. The story continues… amidst the…
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Book Read: Undaunted
Finished!! Such an inspiring read written by Christine Caine, the Director of the A21 Campaign which rescues women and children from sex trafficking. I was inspired by the story of how impossible it seemed to begin rescuing 27 million women and children out of sex trafficking. It’s a David and Goliath story that will inspire…
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Deep-Spirited Friendships
“Love each other, be deep-spirited friends” (Philippians 2:1, MSG). I have been incredibly blessed by deep-Spirited friends who don’t jump to offer advice, but instead, we employ the power of appropriate questions, extend grace, and openly share our personal journeys of following Jesus, including our triumphs and struggles. It’s taken a bit to get here…
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God Didn’t Call Us to Be Successful, He Called Us to Be Faithful
A few years ago, studying the book of Isaiah, I was deeply impacted by the fact that God called Isaiah, not to be successful, but to be faithful. What? Yup. In fact, God warned him that his ministry would have no converts. One could ask, “Why bother?” Our human voices ask ourselves, “What’s the point?”…
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We Criticize What We Know
“We criticize in others the very things we are guilty of ourselves. The reason we see hypocrisy, deceit, and a lack of genuineness in others is that they are all in our own hearts.” http://utmost.org/the-unchanging-law-of-judgment/
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It’s 3AM… (Thoughts on Rejection)
…and I can’t sleep… today I finally finished Joyce Meyer’s book, ‘Ashes to Beauty’. I kept getting interrupted several times. One of the last chapters I read today had this… “Almost every time God is ready to promote you and bring you to the next level, you will experience an attack of rejection at the…
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The Disease Called “Perfection”
Be bold about your weaknesses and you will change people’s lives. Be honest about who you actually are, and others will begin to be their actual selves around you. Once you cure yourself of the disease, others will come to you, asking if they can just “talk”. People are desperate to talk. Some of the…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 