Leadership
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Love and Let Go; Praying for Adult Children
They grow up. Believe it or not, they do. They begin to build their lives separate from you. Well- kind of, it is not really as separate as they believe it to be. At least not for you. Your own innate tuning to each of them adjusts, focusing more on how they are doing, where they are struggling. Focused more now, because the time you have with them is less. Somehow you learn to soak while proximate, aware the intervals of time without them are stretching longer. There is heartache to it, of course. But also, there is pride, joy, and much cheering from the sideline. The sideline, get comfortable…
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Building the Church One Broken Life at a Time
“But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners.” Matthew 9:13 Transparently broken, standing on the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ, I believe this is where we are called to live as Christ followers. Not just the ones who have or are enduring public brokenness, shame-filled pasts, lived out one poor choice after another, but all Christ followers. Because really, aren’t we all falling ridiculously short of living a life that would qualify us to be identified as sons and daughters of God? There is tremendous rhetoric within the body of Christ regarding social…
