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How to quit falling back into the old habits
Most of us understand that we have a body and Spirit. We often confuse āsoulā and āspiritā as being the same thing, though. They are different.
Hebrews 4:12 says, āFor the Word of God is living and active, sharper...
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You (already) have everything you need
Many of us seem to think we need something āmore,ā that we donāt have the ______________ (fill in the blank to your unique situation) we need in order to move from where are are to where weāre designed to be.
But...
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The interruptions are where the best things happen
Life is full of interruptions. In fact, if it wasnāt for the constant nips and tugs at us, most of us could be far more productive.Ā
Or so we think.
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When you look through the Gospels, though, you realize that MANY...
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Where you are isnāt who you are
Where you are isnāt who you are. Itās your location, for sure, but itās not your identity.Ā
We often confuse our place in life with our personhoodā for good and bad. When things are going great, we tend to think too...
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All things at all times all for good (w/ Adam Hicks)
Adam and I wrap our series of 3 talks here, landing on the premise that āall things work together at all times for your goodā (Romans 8:28).
Notably, Paulā the author of the verseā didnāt say thatā
ā all things are...
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Development in your disaster (w/ Adam Hicks)
In the previous talk Adam and I discussed the first thing to do when you face traumaā recognize where you are and choose to feel itā¦
Weāre promisedĀ that Jesus meets us āin the fire,ā and the truth is that weāre going...
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You can feel it now or you can feel it later (w/ Adam Hicks)
Last year I met my friend Adam Hicks, a pastor at Desperation Church, in the Green Room at a church facility dedication.
We have similar storiesā¦
š happily married
š doing what you feel like youāre called to do
š...
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Prayer is less about the words and more about the living relationship
If we took and poll and asked people what prayer is, most of them would say, āPrayer is when I talk to Godā¦ā
But maybe itās more about the PRESENCE than it is the words we say.
(Especially when we realize that He...
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Hope is a better apologetic than dogma
ometimes itās not what you say, itās what you doā¦
And thatās especially true when you live through something. When you exhibit a hope that defies that odds, a disposition that makes no (human and logical) sense yet...
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The āsmallā in front of you is the door to the ābigā that seems beyond your reach
Weāre always looking for the next big thing, it seemsā a project, a place, or even a person that will help grant us our identity and value.
But the ābig,ā Biblically speaking, often comes through the small.
In fact,...
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Vibrant faith is more about transformation and less about information
Last week, I shared the first talk from a small group I co-led over a decade ago. This week, letās continueā¦
The second week of the āSimple Christianityā series at the Birmingham Dream Center (during our small group...
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āJust let me in your boatā
11 years ago I co-led a small group at the Birmingham Dream Center with three friends. It began small, but then grewā¦
⦠and continued growing.
In fact, within two months, we had 100 people attending our āsmall group.ā...
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