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The Coffee Shop: Faith (part 2)
Is there a rhythm of faith resonating with you?
Listen-in to hear from God. What might He want you to notice in…
The Coffee Shop: Faith (part 1)
How is your faith in God being formed or reshaped within this season of your life?
Maybe your faith in a loving God is just beginning.
Maybe this season is uncertain and dim at times.
Maybe you’ve been attentive to its ongoing slow, sure and steady shaping.
Maybe it is more fullness and energized movements.
Take a moment to gaze out a window or at a flickering candle and listen in to your …
Vines & Vineyards
State of Your Soul
We often come to a place in our life where we experience a shift or sense change, a transition in our mind, body, heart—our whole being.
We ask “What is going on inside of me?” or say “Something feels different”—a helpful way to be okay with a shift, change, or transition is to first acknowledge it, and then consider the “state of your soul.”
God invites us where we are.
Recently I was sharing with a friend that life can feel like seasonal patterns, and in a similar way our spiritual journey does as well. Not only do we experience…
Vines & Vineyards
Clearing a Field
God invites us where we are.
A song, a parable, a looking, and a disappointing moment. Does this sound like a normal day? We awake in the morning after a good night of sleep with a song. Then a few hours of moving about our day we hit a lesson (parable), right? At some point, we hopefully pause for lunch and look back over our morning to see how we're doing and then forward to see how much…