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Breakdowns Can Lead to Breakthroughs

It was November 2013, and I had just finished a seminar at the church I was pastoring at the time. I had planted the church with my wife and children...

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Dealing with Bullies

I grew up as a typical kid in a typical neighborhood. I went to a typical elementary school and high school. My life was typical. In my typical life I...

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Live by Truth

(Excerpt from Strong & Courageous, coming out this fall)   Our nation and the whole Western world are now living in a post-Christian era, with large numbers of those born...

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Dangerous Leaders Needed

James Baldwin once wrote, “The most dangerous creation in any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” When a man or woman feels they have nothing to lose,...

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Passion

(An excerpt from my book: Worshipper Warrior)   It was the last day of a three-day personal retreat. My first two days had been spent alone in silence—reading, meditating on...

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Be Dangerous

I’m sitting in a grove of aspen trees; a mule deer just walked by, never noticing me. Earlier in the morning, I was fly fishing a mountain lake. If you...

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Meditation

David is the only person in the Bible called a “man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14). And David, as a shepherd, obviously understood the value of being alone....

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Listening to God in Silence

This morning I’m sitting in my backyard watching doves and finches swoop into our bird feeders and dance across the small step, pecking at a free meal. Accented with the...

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Courage to Face Shame, Part 3

Your story is your testimony. Your story is the chronicle of tests, battles, failures, and victories that define you. May I challenge you to own your story. God has a...

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Courage to Stand Up to Shame, Part 2

In my last blog I shared the definition of shame by Brené Brown. I shared that David in Psalm 31 is struggling with shame in his life. If you did...

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