Waiting and Grieving with Honesty
My husband, Robb had been gone for maybe two weeks when my young boys and I packed up for a trip back to Ohio. I moved to Colorado in my early twenties, and my soul took root right away. My …
How to Write Like a River
One of the biggest misconceptions about writers is that they sit around and think up Important Literary Things and that when they’re done, they sit down to spill out all their genius on paper. The real truth? I know gaggles …
Inviting Pain & Welcoming Grief
Grief requires us to acknowledge and surrender to our throbbing, it is easy to have contempt for this reality and deny its invitation into our lives. I would argue for grief’s essential role in our lives as the 16th-century mystic/poet …
A Place to Listen to Our Lives and the Spirit
From the very beginning of God’s Word, we discover an incredible truth. In Genesis 1:26-27, we read: Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of …
Thinking WITH God
The following is an excerpt from Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms. It captures Jim Wilder’s discussions with Dallas Willard on attachment love to God. This excerpt has been lightly edited for context and clarity. Is God …
The Two Commissions – Work and Rest
God did more than simply create us to be in close relationships. When God created us and when Jesus died on the cross for us, we were commissioned to do God’s work. In Genesis, we are commissioned to have authority …
FREE DOWNLOAD: 7 Days of Praying The Message of Hope
This is not a collection of devotional readings for your quiet time. It is not a seven-step guide to a more dynamic prayer life. It may function as those things, but they are not what this is. What this is, …
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Cradles and the Cross
Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.” John 21:16 Last week, I took care of my grandson while my son and …
3 Keys to Transformational Leadership
Learn more about Mentoring Communities at this webinar, 3 Keys to Transformational Leadership Using Mentoring Communities with MaryKate Morse and Leighton Ford. Every new leader believes they can make a difference where older leaders have failed. Yet when the reality …
Quarantine Soul Care: The Need of the Hour
Let me tell you what I believe the need of the hour is. Maybe I should call it the answer to the need of the hour. I believe it is an army of soldiers, dedicated to Jesus Christ, who believes not only that He is God but that He can fulfill every promise He has ever made and that there isn’t anything too hard for Him. It is the…