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10 Ways to Cooperate with Jesus

January 14, 2017
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| Categories: Spiritual Growth

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A friend approached me in tears recently wondering how to go forward after a major loss in ministry due to someone else’s heartbreaking moral failing. This loss tempted my friend to despair and even consider leaving her ministry. Because I’ve experienced my own losses in ministry, my heart remembered the deep-rooted truths that got me through. My heart surprisingly leaped with joy and moved me to say, “RUN…RUN TO JESUS!!!”

“RUN…RUN TO JESUS!!!”

Because we are fully capable of turning inward toward doubt and despair, run to Jesus!

Because we…

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Loving the Living Stones

February 8, 2015
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| Categories: Who we are in Christ / Identity of a believer

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Sometimes that sweet steeple can have some ugly underneath it.  I think it’s safe to say it out loud.  I don’t know too many who haven’t been disappointed by something ugly that has happened in church.

There will be disappointments within the walls or under the steeples of our churches, but we are witnesses to a watching world in how we respond to those disappointments.

When I say church, I mean the place where we meet on Sundays, not the world-wide church, the body of Christ made up of every believer.

I’ve experienced the two…

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