How often, as leaders, do we see a problem, address the problem, rally a team around the problem, present the problem and delegate the next steps AND if they don’t do it right, swoop in and “get ‘er done”…
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Here are three phrases that make me instantly uncomfortable:
New Year’s Resolution
Fat-burning exercise routine
Evangelical outreach
Remember when we gathered together, hands raised, voices raised, hearts raised? Remember when our mouths spread wide in uncovered smiles, in greetings, in worship?
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“What do you mean ‘change of plans?’” Emma anxiously asked her husband, Jay, but already she had a feeling the answer would not be a surprise.
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Why am I angry?
Because there are over 40 million people who are trafficked per year. That number is staggering and so hard to wrap my mind around. Once I actually learned more and thought about what I can do, I decided...wearing a dress is the least I can do and something practical.
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I’m not sure where you find yourselves this Christmas season. Perhaps you’re enjoying all the gingerbread, hot chocolate, and twinkly lights. Maybe you’re stressed and overwhelmed with the many to do’s. Or possibly you’re bored, lonely and disappointed that another celebration is passing by without the typical joy and traditions it brings.
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30 plus years later, at the drop of a hat I can still sing so many of the songs I learned as a little girl growing up in the 80’s in Sunday School. Can you see the group of little people gathered in tiny wooden chairs
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Strings of lights, boxes of ornaments from years gone by and the sound of Christmas music are all part of how we begin to prepare our home for the holidays. This year as I dug all of those special boxes out of the storage room to prepare our space I felt the sting of loss.
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This bible study is a thorough walkthrough of Isaiah 58, which shows us how the Israelites at the time were treating the practices of God - performing the actions with the wrong motivation. God is more interested in our hearts than our actions.
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Remember that time we sat around and cast vision for what the new year would hold.
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In our own home, bathrooms are both a blessing and a burden. I can say, from experience as a mother, there have been many times when I have yearned for the solitude and sanctuary of a hot bath but instead have found that the drain is completely clogged with hair and fuzz and slime and, is that LEGO? How did they ever get LEGO that far down the…?
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We stood in a small circle together for the first time in six and a half months, two feet apart, various coloured masks covering our faces, anxious to serve in our church’s kid’s ministry again. Our space was small, our capacity with public health regulations was small and we wondered how very different things would look that morning.
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Each one of us comes wriggling and squealing into this world in a place and at a time. Along with basically everything else, the two things we cannot control are that place, and that time. We are born into a land and a situation and a family that we have absolutely no say in. And yet, in a lot of ways, that place and time make all the difference.
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Where I live, the trees are already bare. The colours and the beauty has fallen, as quickly as it arrived.
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We had just sat down at the dinner table when Danny, my husband, placed his mobile phone in front of me.
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If We’re Built for Relationship, Why is it Hard to Find Friends?
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Rise Up! It’s Your Coronation Day.
I sat on the blue printed picnic blanket in the tree lined park, leaves rimmed golden with Autumn’s breath dancing along with the children giggling and running around me.
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In your walk with God you are called, we are all called to something bigger and greater than we could ever imagine as we cling onto Jesus and allow Him to guide us and Rise!
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