After attending Seedbed’s New Room Leaders Gathering in February, I realized that using the language of “personal surrender” had worn thin with me in talking to adult discipleship students….. The language of “consecration” of self (as we...
Some say seeing is believing. Christ says believing is seeing. John 11:40: “Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” What a difference a simple paradigm shift can make! One either believes and follows Christ or...
“Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is. And you should know what your myth is, because it might be a tragedy. And maybe you don’t want it to be.” Jordan Peterson This reminds me of something I have said often to students:...
Today I drove from Eufaula, AL (in Barbour County, where I was born and where I visited a cousin this afternoon) to Montgomery to spend the night with my sister. In rural Barbour County, near Midway, I passed an historic marker that reminded me of an election...
Things I have learned and am required to address regularly: With women in recovery, I find that they have a very “loose” definition of “lie”. Lying by omission appears to never be considered a lie to them. Being presumptuous in willfully...
You know, I’ve learned so much in these 15 years of working with women saying they want recovery. That is NOT the same as wanting to transform one’s life. If one can’t clearly state that she’s had enough of the old way and knows that...