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Laughing with Jesus

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul. As the wind loves to call things to dance, May your gravity be lightened by grace. Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth, May your thoughts

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Boundless Love

An indecisive faith and a wavering hope immobilize us on our journey to fullness of life and our daily walk in the Spirit of Jesus. If we could only believe Jesus was/is telling the truth then this world in which we live would be an exciting place! I
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Call Me Crazy!

Do you hear what I hear? Is your heart strangely warmed within you--like the men who walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus right after he was raised from the dead? Or like Francis of Assisi, have you heard the ‘call’ too walk away from the riches a

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Becoming the Nurturing Connection

You and I are the connection the world is desperately looking for. In 2017 you will become that connector! How is that true? First, the world is disconnected from the one and only true God. And that is not His desire or doing. God is clearly the init
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Love relates to people’s potential rather than their actual nature.
Love overcomes our own hurts and wounds. How do we love someone when love is not returned? In exactly the same way as if it were! We love for the joy of loving.

Love means that we don

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The Ragamuffin Gospel

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Brennan Manning loved to refer to the Gospel as the Ragamuffin Gospel. I always liked that. Here’s why. I didn’t come to Jesus with any piety or with the veil of religious performance. I was completely surprised when I encountered Jesus. He was total

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The Call

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‘Do you hear what I hear?’ Is your heart strangely warmed within you--like the men who walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus right after he was raised from the dead? Or like Francis of Assisi have you heard the ‘call’ to walk away from the riches

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Authentic Knowing

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There are some relational and dynamic tests that reveal simple and pure love for Father. If these characterize your life then you and I will have a solid confidence on which to place our faith walk. How can you and I know beyond a shadow of doubt tha

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A Scandalous Affair

9479693098?profile=originalWould you dare characterize your relationship with Jesus as a scandalous affair? Wait a minute before you reject this seeming crazy notion.  We live in a culture that continually tries to pull us down to its level of immaturity. Every day, world medi

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Truly Poor in Spirit

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“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.” Matthew 5: 3-5, NIV.

In solitary silence we listen with great attent

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To Love and To Be Loved

"Just watch my servant blossom! Exalted, tall, head and shoulders above the crowd! But He didn't begin that way. At first everyone was appalled. He didn't even look human--a ruined face, disfigured past recognition. Nations all over the world will be

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Aggressively Apprehending Grace

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This maybe one of our most daunting challenges; to daily faith the gospel of grace for yourself and others aggressively. ‘Aggressively’ literally means it will be marked by obtrusive energy and will be strong in effect and intention. Wow! Too daily

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Spontaneous Understanding

9479694475?profile=originalIt is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has known what God has prepared for those who love him." But God has shown it to us through his Spirit. The Spirit understands all things. He understands even the deep things of God.

Who can k

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The Main Event

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"It cost God plenty to get you and me out of that dead-end, empty-headed life we grew up in."

3-6 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long befo

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This One Thing

 

Are you a person of single focus-a person of one thing? "But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ." Paul purposely narrowed his options to become a man of one thing. Let’s consider how he put it…

“Yes, all the things I on

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No More Excuses

No More Excuses

Read the following scriptures, heart expressions and prayer meditatively. Allow you to be stripped, gripped and freed of excuse. Be free to embrace your humanity as did our big brother Jesus. He showed us the way! You will be glad you

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Listen--What Do You Hear

Listen—What Do You Hear?

“To be at ease is to be unsafe.” Pope John XXIII When one is not listening; one is at ease and is not awakening. Awakening to what? “Sanctify them in the truth, Thy Word is truth.” John 17:17 Whatever Jesus has to say about an

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Nurtured by Belonging

Nurtured by Belonging

Try real hard to pull back the façade or religious masks that you have gotten so used to letting others see or experience when around you. For some of us; we’ve been pretending for so long that we’re no longer sure of our true id

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Nurturing Testimony

Reconciliation in the ICU

This is a very recent and true story from a dear friend…

My dad had a brain aneurysm a few days ago, and here is an update. They think it was a vein and not an artery, but haven't confirmed that yet.  They are doing another an

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Nurtured by Heart Lessons

Nurtured by Heart Lessons

"Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.
For great is your l

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