God's Ordering

Today I am offering you seven posts teaching us that, first, God is in control of your disaster; that you indeed can recover from disaster; and that your trials - even disasters - are not without reason.

7 Posts About Finding Value in Disaster and Life’s Trials

It’s not easy to find value in disaster, especially as it’s going down. However, I have no doubt that we can learn from every experience in life. That’s evident in the take-a-ways from today’s “7 Posts About...” post. Today I am offering you seven posts (okay, eight,...

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When we seek healing to our pain, we have to know that hiding is not healing, that our response can determine how well we heal. And, even though scars usually will remain, we must ultimately release our pain before we are able to truly heal.

There’s No Healing a Wounded Spirit When You Run Away

When we need healing, we search all sorts of places to get the relief we seek. Of course, healing some events can be a more grueling process than others. Living in a culture where we expect immediate relief from merely taking a pill or syrup, it means we can be quite...

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Are you facing trials or experiencing adversity? Have you found a silver lining or are you feeling desperate and hopeless. Take courage, beloved. For it is in our trials that we find meaning, we are refined, and - oh yes - God is glorified.

God Salvages a Silver Lining from All Your Adversities

Let’s face it: some things happen where there is no obvious silver lining. Sometimes, things just plain suck. Whether it is a one time event or a series of decisions or events that lead to it, life will have trials. We do and will continue to face adversity. And, in...

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Bekah DiFelice’s Almost There: Searching for Home in a Life on the Move offers a unique perspective of a transient lifestyle. It shows how we are constantly redefining home according to our sense of personal belonging, identity and purpose.

Redefining Home – a Review of Almost There by Bekah DiFelice

I figure the constant redefining of home is a big part of having a transient lifestyle. It’s not something with which I have much experience. In fact, I lived in my childhood home into my twenties. I never switched schools. As an adult, I have only lived in two homes...

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Noah’s story is one of obedience and faith. His incredible response to the ultimate engineer shows dedication to God and follow through that most of us would neglect. Here are a couple good questions to ask yourself for making sure you are not wasting time as you pursue your calling.

What Obedience and Favor Have to Do with Trusting God

Obedience may be the last thing going through your mind when a train enters a dark tunnel. However, obedience is a part of it. By remaining seated, calm, and confident that the engineer will see it through, you are displaying a level of obedience. You are trusting the...

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Unlearning is one of the ways Jesus discipled. As life refiners, we must unlearn as we learn are are developing into his perfected masterpieces

Unlearning the Blame Game and Learning to Reframe

The concept of organizational unlearning came into my purview while studying for my master’s degree. It refers to “the discarding of old routines to make way for new ones.” When I applied that to my career experiences, I realized I was seeing it play out in some way...

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Baseball players celebrating the momentum effect

Is there a Momentum Effect in Sports and in our Lives?

I’ve heard many sports talk personalities debate the existence of a momentum effect. It’s also sometimes called psychological momentum. Some will swear it exists and then immediately dismiss their credibility by suggesting there are also curses and responses to not...

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See Individuals, Not Crowds: Mother Teresa

If Mother Teresa Didn’t See Crowds, What Did She See?

Mother Teresa experienced a lifetime of helping others and impacting lives in countless ways. She built hospice centers, orphanages, and centers for the blind and disabled (among MUCH more). She cared for and served the needs of people who hospitals refused to admit,...

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Getting God's Signal in Midst of Noise is Hard - it's There. God is never doing nothing.

Getting God’s Signal Amid Clutter and Noise

Did you catch God's signal today? What about yesterday, or the day before? Have you gotten God's signal at all in the last month? I am not talking about trying to delicately tune the AM band on your  radio to the low-frequency Christian radio station in your market....

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