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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

A suspension bridge spans a canyon between a tall cliff and a much taller one. From the taller cliff, we see tiny people in the distance, setting out single file to pass over the bridge that will take them to a much higher place.

Our Passover: Knowing and going with Christ

  • Post published:May 11, 2025
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:May 21, 2025

From its start, Passover has met God’s people at the intersection of pain and gain, and urged, “Go with God. He is so worth it.” A story of Christ our Passover.

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People of God, befriend the forsaken

  • Post published:March 8, 2025
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:June 8, 2025

I’d seen it in Scripture, yet had not seen: How strongly God commits himself to defend the forsaken. How strongly he urges his people to befriend the forsaken.

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Sometimes, intimate conversation with God is passionate and fierce.

It is God who has wronged me

  • Post published:March 2, 2025
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

Deeply grieving, falsely accused, Job cried in anger. “It is God who has wronged me!” Sometimes, intimate conversations with God are passionate and fierce.

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Defender of the forsaken – this is God

  • Post published:February 20, 2025
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:March 8, 2025

The Lord sees when the vulnerable are wrongly rejected. He hears when the helpless cry to him, and he champions them. Defender of the forsaken – this is God.

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O say, can you see?

  • Post published:July 11, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 12, 2025

I did not dream that, in my lifetime, leaders in the US church would convince so many to embrace such skewed views of God, Christianity and country.

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See! I am doing a new thing

  • Post published:June 13, 2024
  • Post category:Living Life/My Story
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

Nine months ago, I did not see renovation in my future. Now, I’m neck deep in refreshing my website. And I’m marveling at God’s renewing work in our lives.

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I AM the one you seek

  • Post published:April 20, 2024
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:May 21, 2025

The name “I AM” is the Lord’s treasure detector. When Jesus says it, he is urging, “Search for treasure here. I want to show you more of who I AM.”

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Earthquakes, trauma – and silences that erase

  • Post published:March 7, 2024
  • Post category:My Story/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

Any eerie, uneasy silence that minimizes or denies an earthquake - or any other trauma someone is facing - shouts to those willing to hear: Look deeper. Ask, Why?

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You have circled this mountain long enough

  • Post published:February 7, 2024
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God/Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

It may be in a month that’s little noticed when the earth moves under you. And God says, “You’ve stayed here long enough.” And something within you shifts.

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The Lord who breaks open the way

  • Post published:May 22, 2023
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church/My Story
  • Post last modified:May 23, 2025

“She cannot say that!” the woman yelled. Half a world from my home, she forbade me to invite the churched to repent. Then, we watched the Lord break through.

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