Traditional templates condemn true transformation

The reason why you can still continue to smoke cigarettes after a prognosis of certain death is given, is because a part inside has used smoking as survival for so long that it can’t risk stopping because it believes it’s keeping you alive. You can apply this dynamic to any hangup, habit or need for …

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Nomadic Normalcy

I am in amazement that I was drawn to a CS Lewis clip because it was a sneaky way for the Lord to address the underlinings of my boredom and burnout with church life.  The headline read “healing the wound in your minds“ and yet it covered a topic completely unexpected. Even as I write …

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Baptismal Birthings

They had a call for a baptism and it was in that moment where I realized I had to lay down everything that I’ve been holding onto, all that I gripped with my fists because I didn’t believe that God could offer me something better in exchange for. I had been dancing during worship for …

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Taxing times under authority

Parables can be powerful.  They should be, Our Savior was the first to speak them with intent.  The messages hidden within the words were meant to draw the listener, the reader, the seer, and the knower into a baffling rendition of what could be interpreted on a surface level.  Jesus was deep and requires that …

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A Surgeon shares some surprises

A historical account of how politics, feminism, black lives matter campaigns, picketing, strikes, news coverage and poverty have shaped the American mindset to accept activism without calling it hate, was delivered by Dr. Damon Brantley, a black surgeon sharing a message in Camden County of Kingston Georgia. Without a system of accountability, every person makes …

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The naked waitress dream

  I had a dream that I was waiting on people in a restaurant naked.  When I realized everyone was watching as I walked around in the dining room I stooped down to talk to my table quietly.  Then I was inside a fancy dressing room at a department store inside the mall.  The room …

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