Category Archives: Growing Deeper

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Climbing the Ladder of Real Success

Climbing the Ladder of Real Success
Self-help is all the rage these days. One can assume that the voracious appetite for this kind of material serves to illustrate the perceived need of folks who are working very hard to be better, to improve with a goal to be more successful, and more fulfilled and happy. I can certainly understand this desire.…
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Bruised and Broken? God has a Plan for You!

Bruised and Broken? God has a Plan for You!
Thornton Wilder's play, “The Angel that Troubled the Waters” is based on the story found in John 5:1- 5 with an interesting twist. The play tells the story of a doctor who visits the pool of Bethesda in hopes that he could be the first in the water when the angel appears and troubles the…
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Looking at Jesus

Looking at Jesus
  They say that you become what you look at, and I think in many ways they're right.  For example, if we spend a lot of time watching violent movies or video games we can become desensitized to violence, and some studies suggest that we are much more likely to behave violently.  If we focus…
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Jesus. A Parable of God

They say a  picture is worth a thousand words.  A story can hold so much more than dry propositions or facts and one of the reasons Jesus was such an effective communicator was because He employed stories.  In these stories Jesus could communicate big ideas in a way that they could be more accessible.  These stories have come to…
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Growing Up in Christ: Friends not Servants

Growing Up in Christ: Friends not Servants
When my sons were younger, age three or four, it was perfectly reasonable for us as parents to set out their clothing, help them get dressed, cross the street and prepare their dinner plate.   Imagine if my son, the eldest being 21, still waited for mom and dad to set out his clothes, help…
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Generous God :: Becoming Love

Generous God :: Becoming Love
One of the biggest challenges for folks who see God through the eyes of shame is the inability to see that God is truly for us. "Yes, I know God loves me BUT..."  "Yes, it is all grace by faith in Jesus BUT..." This can be a real handicap as the One, who can truly…
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Light Dispels Darkness

Light Dispels Darkness
An excerpt for "Becoming Love. Avoiding Common Forms of Christian Insanity"  Exploring how God is faithful when we need Him most! Many people are under the impression that the holy God flees in the presence of sinful people, He cannot stand our sin and removes Himself from us, but as we have seen it is quite the…
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From your Head to your Heart

From your Head to your Heart
“You must descend from your head into your heart. At present, your thoughts of God are in your head.  And God himself is, as it were, outside you, and so your prayer and other spiritual exercises remain exterior. Whilst you are still in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but will always be whirling about, like snow in winter or clouds…
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A Gift from my 4 year old – Parenting

A Gift from my 4 year old – Parenting
One of the great things in my life is parenting my children.  There have been seasons in my life though where I had missed the reality of that in my life.  It wasn’t that my guys were hellions, for I can’t remember a day when I wished I had never had them, but there were sadly,…
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Judge Less. More Filling.

Judge Less. More Filling.
“Judge not lest you be judged” are haunting words for me.  I am coming to realize that a constant problem of the human creation is the propensity to judge others.   I think there are a variety of reasons for this but for our purposes here, suffice to say it is the natural consequence of…
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