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What Are the Default Thoughts of Your Mind?

This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on [...]

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Being Defined by God’s Truth: A Prayer

Living God, may I never place my security in people or performance, but only in Your character and promises. Deliver me from the plague of insecurity and anxiety that can cripple me and erode my faith in You. I want to be increasingly defined by Your truth and not by the lies of a fleeting [...]

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No Adversity Can Defeat God’s Purposes

- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of encouragement -

Like the children of Israel, the early disciples must have wondered if God was going to abandon them [...]

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A Tale of Twin Sisters: Part 1

This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. [...]

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People Cannot Live Without Hope

- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of encouragement -

People cannot live without hope. Throughout history, human beings have endured the loss of many things. People have lost their health, their finances, their [...]

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The Deaf Maestro

This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual [...]

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The Presence and the Manifestation of the Presence

This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God.
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Shop Class as Soulcraft

There is an aspect of inquiry that hovers about our practical activities, which may or may not be brought to full awareness and issue in careful reflection. Following Aristotle, Talbot Brewer (The Retrieval of Ethics) connects an this aspect of inquiry to our experience of pleasure, the kind we get when we become absorbed in [...]

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Work, Play, and Worship

Most middle-class Americans tend to worship their work, to work at their play, and to play at their worship.  As a result, their meanings and values are distorted.  Their relationships disintegrate faster than they can keep them in repair, and their life-styles resemble a cast of characters in search of a plot.  (Gordon Dahl)
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Hiding in Plain Sight

This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God.
The Universal Presence

“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? [...]

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