I’m re-reading a powerful little book that captured my attention 20 years ago. It is called “Practicing His Presence”, journaling two men’s attempts to continually be in the presence of God.
As soon as I opened it, I found some thoughts that are absolutely amazing. Each of these deal with lessons the author learned [...]
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Practicing His Presence
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Choosing to Discover God
This post is a brief follow-up to last weekend’s message: “Choosing Better”. Remember the lesson we learned from Mary? She sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what He said.
Mary chose to go counter-cultural, sitting where she wasn’t “supposed” to be. Mary chose to ignore her to-do list. Mary chose to put Jesus first, not [...]
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Refuel
Our current sermon series is called “Running on Empty”. We have been recommending the book “Refuel” by Doug Fields to those that want to dig deeper into the subject of refueling lives that are running on empty.
I just ran across a great quote from this book today that I wanted to share with you:
God [...]
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Hearing God: Last Post
As I read back through the posts on Willard’s “Hearing God”, some themes stuck out to me…here goes:
Our Motive: Too often, we want to hear from God to determine the correct course of action in a specific circumstance. In these cases, we can be overly concerned with helping ourselves rather than helping others or [...]
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Hearing God: Do You Know Who’s Talking?
I have two kids and a dog. I know it is only three names, but I still get them messed up. Adam, my oldest, doesn’t seem to care. The dog doesn’t know any better…at least I don’t think so. But it really seems to bother Isaac. When I accidently call him Adam or Oliver (yes, [...]
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Hearing God: The Washing of the Word (Part 2)
Kids might know that their clothes are dirty and need washed. They might actually see the mud caked on their shirt, but be unaware of what to do about it. They might even try some ingenious ways to clean the shirt…only to make it worse.
My last post discussed the role of the Word [...]
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Hearing God: The Washing of the Word
The seventh chapter of Dallas Willard’s “Hearing God” is packed and powerful…by far the best chapter I’ve read so far! It is so packed, I’m going to split it into two posts. This first one will deal with the role of God’s Word in hearing His voice. In one place, Willard uses Ephesians 5 to [...]
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