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Are you tired from getting outsmarted in prayer by Satan?
Spiritual Sterility and Boredom Are Not Gifts of the Spirit
Bored? Fruitless? Jesus? Really? If you’re BORED with your Christian life, then I can promise you – you aren’t living the version of Christianity found on the pages of the Bible. If you’re FRUITLESS in your Christian walk, then I can promise you – you aren’t following...
The “We” Part of “Well” Really Does Matter
Any group or church can call itself Christian. That doesn’t mean anything. It can be all talk, womp-womp-womp, with no real evidence of Jesus or the cultural values of Heaven operating in and through them. But there’s also no truly Christian group or church that’s...
We’ve seen turbulence and miracles, and The Well is STILL HERE!
2020 was a GREAT year, right?
2020 was a GREAT year, right? If we understand our salvation through the lens of conformity to Christ, then 2020 should have been a seriously GREAT year for us Christians. 2020 provided lots of opportunities to SEE the ugly in ourselves and lots of opportunities to...
Don’t Be Too Easily Satisfied
Where our comfort zone ends, the will of God begins We are creatures of comfort and habit. And since we love our suffering, testing and trial free zones, we are easily lulled into being content with the status quo of our religious traditions and habits. If we were to...
Who’s Your Daddy?
Beware of Self-Satisfaction With Your Christian Life
“Enough” of a Christian doesn’t mean “enough” with God. The self-satisfaction we can feel as Christians is killing us because we can really believe that whatever we do for God is good enough. We can feel confident that since we’re probably enough of a Christian for...
How To See Irritations As Opportunities To Reflect Jesus
Irritations are opportunities. That was my big take-a-way from what Lindsey Papantoniou shared this past Saturday during our FB Live. I have an endless list of things that irritate me daily! It can start as simple as someone leaving 2 drops of lemonade in the jug in...
Make Sure Jesus is Defining Your Identity Right Now: Do you identify with the world or Christ?
Our identity is defined by something. So, when people look at you, who do you reflect? If someone snooped on your social media, where would they say your allegiance lay? When you talk about people or causes or politics or Covid or whatever, is it Jesus in you that’s...
How to Overcome the Down & Dirty of Reconciliation
Followers of Christ are called to be reconcilers. The pages of Scripture are replete with examples and commands of how our reconciliation with God is supposed to come to bear on the realities and people surrounding us. That’s what all of those “one another” passages...