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Apr 24, 2018
2 min

Holy Brakes

God contents for our hearts, and he made it quite clear that he wants them completely, or not at all. And if we do not succeed in creating a

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Feb 26, 2018
2 min

Burning Hearts

We want to change our society, our towns, cities, nations and cultures, but they will not change until we change. Our transformation is the

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Jan 22, 2018
3 min

Unfolding Grace

How we can experience God’s unfolding and abundant grace? Here is what I have learned about grace in over 45 years walking with God.

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Thinking About Change? Here Is A Tool That Will Help You Succeed!

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Dec 12, 2017
3 min

Thinking About Change? Here Is A Tool That Will Help You Succeed!

Looks like God is expecting our active cooperation in this business of being changed into the likeness of his Son. And herein lies our great

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Nov 20, 2017
4 min

Own-Up

For the longest time I truly believed that if I stayed close to Jesus this process of becoming more like him would happen on auto-pilot, jus

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Oct 30, 2017
3 min

Bi-Polar Spirituality

So what are we to do? Is it enough to simply ask God to change us whenever we get confronted with our faulty character trades? We’ve probabl

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Sep 25, 2017
2 min

Escaping The Winter Of Your Mind

Even better, instead of asking “Who am I?”, we should ask, “What am I worth?” If we believe that we bear the imprint of God and are made in

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How To Blackmail God And Get Away With It

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Sep 8, 2017
2 min

How To Blackmail God And Get Away With It

Some say that good spiritual direction is perhaps the greatest single need in the church today. We have tried far to long to keep people out

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Aug 21, 2017
2 min

Where The Rubber Meets The Road

When I discovered spiritual direction it was like a breath of fresh air. All of a sudden the focus was not on what I do, or what I should be

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Aug 14, 2017
4 min

The Mystery Of Addiction

In Spiritual Direction we try to help people understand the reality that the presence of God is always with us, even when we do not feel it.

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Spiritual Direction - What It Is And Why You Need It (4)

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Aug 7, 2017
3 min

Spiritual Direction - What It Is And Why You Need It (4)

The secret of the sculptor is that what he knows he knows by heart he can recognise in the marble. If he knows an angel by heart, he will se

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Spiritual Direction - What It Is And Why You Need It (3)

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Jul 31, 2017
2 min

Spiritual Direction - What It Is And Why You Need It (3)

Spiritual Direction is not a new fad, or newly-discovered practice in modern-day church, but has been around for as long as mankind itself.

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Jul 25, 2017
1 min

Summer Musings

This is the time of year when many of us get to enjoy some well-deserved down-time. Sadly, for many it is also a time when we regress spirit

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Spiritual Direction - What It Is, And Why You Need It (2)

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Jul 10, 2017
2 min

Spiritual Direction - What It Is, And Why You Need It (2)

Why Spiritual Direction? This is not the latest fad in Christianity, but the discovery of an age-old tradition among believers. To be a C...

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Spiritual Direction - What It Is And Why You Need It (1)

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Jul 3, 2017
2 min

Spiritual Direction - What It Is And Why You Need It (1)

Did you ever wonder why the early Christians were also called “The Way” (Acts 9:2)? The Greek word used here (hodos) can mean both a road or

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Jun 20, 2017
2 min

Me? I'm not lost!

It is one thing to be lost in the endless corridors of an international airport, and the worst that can happen is that we miss our flight. B

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Jun 12, 2017
2 min

Dreams on Life-Support

“The best is yet to come…” is a comment I hear over and over, and I have tried to encourage others with it as well. In light of eternity tha

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Jun 5, 2017
2 min

Understanding your Season in Life

A forty-year-old still crawling, talking baby talk and in diapers is a disgusting image! The same is true in our spiritual lives. That is...

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May 29, 2017
2 min

The Unseen Killer: Anxiety

Whether we admit it or not, we are in a constant combat with a very disturbing and taxing emotion: anxiety! The dictionary defines it as ...

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May 22, 2017
4 min

Spiritual Burnout

“Burnout” is a big topic these days, and according to most sources it is on the rise. Physical exhaustion and a growing epidemic of depre...

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