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

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Blessings are not sweet little things

  • Post published:December 6, 2019
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

We’ve thought of blessings as sweet little things. And so we miss the wonder and the weightiness of the blessings of the Lord.

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God chooses the foolish

  • Post published:June 20, 2017
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mark Charles is a prophetic voice to the US church culture. He describes himself this way: “I do not lead any organization nor do I work solely for a specific…

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God is kind but not soft

  • Post published:May 12, 2017
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:March 18, 2024

Mini-post. "God is kind, but he's not soft ..." A notable Bible quote and an image of a courageous woman that encourage me to go with God.

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Lingering at a crossroads

  • Post published:November 9, 2015
  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Minipost. Encouragement sent to me from an artist friend. It begins: "Not everyone who lingers at a crossroads hesitates in indecision."

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Be to me a rock

  • Post published:June 30, 2014
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post. Majestic red rocks in Colorado Springs, and a notable verse from Psalms, offering a prayer to the God who is our rock.

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Strange fruit – or good?

  • Post published:April 15, 2014
  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

"The Church's broken history with race needs to be acknowledged before we can move forward."

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Listen to the whole Body

  • Post published:March 28, 2014
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

It's crucial that we humbly receive what the Lord Jesus wants to pour into our lives through others who love him but look and think differently from us.

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I’ll reap in joy

  • Post published:November 4, 2012
  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post. "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." A Bible verse, a song and an image that have cheered me in the night.

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Carried shame: Let’s face it

  • Post published:June 25, 2012
  • Post category:Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post. Quote about the effects of carried shame and carried feelings, from the book, I Don't Want to Talk About It.

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