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Your Will Be Done: Finding freedom through a genuine focus in prayer.
The posture behind ‘God willing’ Jesus taught us how to pray and in Luke 22:42 Jesus said, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” If we’re being honest, how often is our heart posture in prayer “NOT my will, but yours...
How to persevere and honor God in the midst of suffering: Part 2
The reality of suffering Part one of this blog focused on persevering through our own suffering. Part two will focus on how to love others well when they are suffering. This topic is important because part of our discipleship involves persevering and helping others to...
How to persevere and honor God in the midst of suffering: Part 1
Why do we suffer? Have you ever had a time in your life that was really hard and painful? If you live on this earth, then your answer is probably YES. No matter one’s personality, ethnicity, culture, family dynamics, religion, or socioeconomic status, we ALL have...
Make Every Effort to Keep the Unity of the Spirit.
THE NECESSITY OF UNITY “In necessary things unity; in uncertain things liberty; in all things charity” – Marco Antonio de Dominis, 1617 Humans like their tribes. We feel safe, accepted, and have a sense of belonging when we know who is on our team. This has never been...
What Are You Afraid Of And what Reality Show Could You Win?
Prayer is designed to function like light in a dark situation.
There’s always darkness, but then there’s also light. The Well’s Facebook page is often full of prayer requests, which is a beautiful thing. Now, it’s not the need for prayer that’s beautiful, but rather people requesting and wielding the power of prayer. The darkness...
A Spiritual Kick in the Pants is What We All Need From Time to Time!
Beware of basking in self-satisfaction Self-satisfaction is downright dangerous, and yet we’re all prone to it. We can get to feeling spiritually self-content, believing that since we’re a “good enough” Christian for most churches, God is satisfied with our “good...
Don’t get Hung-Up in the Comparison Trap or an Identity Crisis.
Submission, Forgiveness, and the Law of the Harvest
How will we see the full power of prayer if prayer isn’t the MAIN thing?
How Chasing the “Perfect Quiet Time” Backfires
THINK OF THE BIBLE AS FOOD I love how C. S. Lewis said it: “God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the...