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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: God's Equation
"What do you say to people who are disillusioned with the church?" I was guesting on the Mista Yu podcast this week when the host asked...
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Jun 133 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: How Does Our Image of God Affect Us?
How do you imagine God to be? And how does that image impact your behavior and actions as you practice your faith daily? Blogger Melissa...
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Jun 63 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: What It's Like to Know Jesus
Ponder with me this profound quote that I've been mulling over. This wisdom comes from the new pope, Pope Leo: “We are often preoccupied...
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May 303 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: The Answer? Put Christ at the Center
During an event in which I was representing my ministry, a woman tried to draw me into a political conversation. She suspected that I did...
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May 232 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Don't Let the Wall Stop You
Have you ever felt like you were getting distant from God? That feeling might seep in when you realized you hadn't read the Bible in a...
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May 162 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Love Does Not Dishonor
Our seven-day practical faith should be based on scripture, such as the Love chapter of 1 Corinthians. Loving others means honoring others, which is really hard to do.
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May 93 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Blocking Out Distractions
The roar of motorcycles rolls through our church every Sunday morning. Our location is across the street from a famous retailer....
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May 22 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Free for Joyful Obedience
We were reciting a prayer during worship that included the sentence, "Free us for joyful obedience through Jesus Christ our Lord." I...
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Apr 252 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Victory Lap vs. Victorious Living
As I ponder Good Friday and Easter, I wonder why Jesus didn't take a victory lap. A victory lap is an extra celebration after winning a...
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Apr 182 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Facing Our Expiration Date
I nervously sat as still as possible and closed my eyes while the aging barber clipped around my ears. It was clear to me that he didn't...
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Apr 112 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Somebody Else's Problem
In his prior blog post, Cecil said not to take on every problem in the world. This time, he tells us how to know which problems to tackle.
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Apr 42 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: It's a Great, Great, Great, Big World
Our fear expands when we consider all the problems of the world. But God has the world in his hands and only parcels out a small part to us.
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Mar 282 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Devotional: Glorifying and Enjoying God
"Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy God forever." How can we do this, starting today?
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Mar 213 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Committing to the Process without Emotionally Attaching to the Result
Playing cornerback in football requires some of the highest maturity of any position in sports. In a game where the opposing receiver has...
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Mar 142 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Multiplication by One
The boy knew that the countless starfish that had washed up on the beach would not survive. So he began picking them up and tossing them...
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Mar 72 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Faith Gaps - Doing God's Job
A big spiritual problem in the Great Cultural Divide is that we try to do God's job, because we feel like it's not getting done.
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Feb 283 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Faith Gaps - Hating Our Enemy
It's natural to hate and not forgive our enemies. Jesus says to do the opposite. Do we trust him enough to obey him?
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Feb 212 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Faith Gaps - Energetic Slaves of Stability
The words leaped off the page at me. An Amazon reviewer, in discussing my book "From Comfort Zone to Trust Zone" and how comfort zones...
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Feb 72 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Denying Lordship
If we're worried about money, or a raft of other things, it signals that we are not giving lordship control of our lives to Jesus.
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Jan 312 min read
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Seven-Day Practical Faith Blog: Faith Gaps from Feast and Famine
In this blog series, I'm looking at faith gaps caused by fear. If you're like me, you tend to pray for the things you want. You pray for...
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Jan 243 min read
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