Finding a Guide for Your Spiritual Growth

Finding a Guide for Your Spiritual Growth

There are several benefits to having a spiritual companion, director, or “trail guide” in your walk with Jesus. Here are some of the most compelling reasons—and how to find your own.

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Searching for Signs: Living a Life That Is Attentive to the Spirit

Searching for Signs: Living a Life That Is Attentive to the Spirit

God’s given us many clues for sensing his presence and following his lead—if we will just pay attention.

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My Voice or God's? A Question of Discernment

My Voice or God's? A Question of Discernment

How can we discern whether something we heard in prayer is God or just us? How do we respond to what we hear anyway? Here’s some guidance for sorting it all out.

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Laughing in the Dark: Celebration as an Act of Defiance

Laughing in the Dark: Celebration as an Act of Defiance

Why celebrate in the midst of so much hardship and brokenness in the world? Because there’s something bigger going on…

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Come and See: Discovering the Kingdom of God in Unexpected Places

Come and See: Discovering the Kingdom of God in Unexpected Places

“God sightings” is a spiritual practice that helps us notice God’s presence in the most challenging or unlikely places.

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Formed and Equipped: How God Prepares Us for Kingdom Work

Formed and Equipped: How God Prepares Us for Kingdom Work

Far from being at odds with Kingdom action, contemplative practices—which encourage us simply to rest with and in God—are tools God uses to shape us for the Kingdom work he calls us to.

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What If We’re All Addicts: Finding Freedom from Cultural Captivity

What If We’re All Addicts: Finding Freedom from Cultural Captivity

Addictions to things that seem good (and are applauded by our culture) may be taking us captive—and Jesus wants us free.

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Living Under the True King

Living Under the True King

The message of the Kingdom is everywhere in the gospels. How is this central message of Jesus meant to impact and shape each of our lives?

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Looking Beneath the Surface: Discovering the Power of God in Iraq

Looking Beneath the Surface: Discovering the Power of God in Iraq

In God’s Kingdom, an unspeakable power—far greater than any kingdom or power of this world—is at work. But we often have to look beneath the surface of things to find it.

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Blessing, Cursing, and Ethnic Identity, part 2: Speaking Life Over the Skin We Are In

Blessing, Cursing, and Ethnic Identity, part 2: Speaking Life Over the Skin We Are In

Speaking life over the skin we are in starts with understanding God's vision for culture and ethnicity. Here are some ways to begin blessing our own ethnic identity and that of others.

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Blessing, Cursing, and Ethnic Identity, part 1: Unearthing Our Prejudices and Judgments

Blessing, Cursing, and Ethnic Identity, part 1: Unearthing Our Prejudices and Judgments

We carry life and death in our words of blessing and cursing, and one area that often suffers under the weight of our words is ethnic identity—our own, and that of others. In a world increasingly divided, how do we become Jesus’s agents of blessing and healing?

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