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What feels right in the moment does not always turn out to be right. I can’t tell you how often I have done something believing I was helping only to watch it utterly blow up in my face and need to apologize after the fact. They say hindsight is
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How do you recognize a leader that you want for your life? Do you look for a charismatic speaker that can hold a crowd in awe while the crowd hangs on every word the leader speaks? Do you look for someone with scores of followers and join their mighty throng?
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Is fame a good thing? All we want is a little notoriety. We want something upon which our identity can rest. When people hear our name, we want some characteristic to come to mind. What is it for you? When people hear your name, what is your claim to fame?
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The struggle between good and evil is seldom straightforward. While I like the traditional hero slays dragon and gets the girl motif because such stories are easily followed and satisfying in their resolution with a victorious hero, these aren’t always my favorite in the long term. The stories that
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How do you decide to whom you give authority over your life? Do you look at the clothes they wear and the cars they drive? Do you consider the way they put on their make-up and fix their hair? Do you consider the pursuits of their time? Do you
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Identity is a funny thing. It is one of the fundamental concepts that human beings pursue the most even though most of the time we don’t realize we are pursuing it. I’m willing to bet that almost every interaction with social media is about identity: we watch things
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God works in unique ways. Sometimes, the hand of God is obvious and immediate. Other times the hand of God is slow, calculating, and much more difficult to see. Sometimes, we can recognize what God is doing as He does it. Sometimes, God’s action doesn’t make sense until
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We are never abandoned. Yet, with the increasing exposure to social media, it is easy to feel alone. Even if I have a thousand friends that help me get ten-thousand likes every day by sharing all of my incredible creator-content, in the end it is still me interacting
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It is all for you. Careful, here. This isn’t meant as permission to be selfish, self-centered, or thinking more highly of yourself than you ought. God doesn’t call us to change so we can put ourselves back at the center of our universe. Doesn’t the center
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Somedays what we really need is to be held by our hand. You likely don’t remember being two. You probably don’t remember someone holding onto your hand everywhere you went. You don’t remember how awkward it is to always walk with one arm raised high above your
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Space is more necessary than we realize. Yesterday, we were invited to prepare the way. We were invited to think about God’s call to change as we walk with Jesus. Today we meet John the Baptizer. John the Baptizer preached in the uninhabited places. John understood the need for
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Change is never easy. Change involves analysis, self-reflection, and understanding that we’re not already perfect. Change means stepping out of our comfort zone and being willing to try to become something new. Change involves leaving a familiar place and embracing something different. As the story of Jesus opens