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Living the Manifesto, Day 1
Today was the first day of Advent and my first day of living The Christmas Manifesto. Here’s a brief update. I posted the manifesto on my bathroom mirror and read it allowed this morning. I will read it again tonight before I go to bed. I can already tell that the Manifesto is reach going to reach further into my life than I had anticipated. For example, during our hymns in worship I thought … Read entire article »
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Prayer Journaling 3, Resistance
When I start a new spiritual discipline I have a lot energy around it, but after a couple of weeks when the novelty of newness wears off I find that I start resisting doing it. I discovered this past Sunday many of our youth are just like me. They are still working hard at their prayer journals, but the second week it was harder to be motivated. We are at the intersection of “wanting” and “committed”. The difference between wanting something and being committed to it is whether or not you are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. My experience has been that in every new discipline you reach a crunch point where you gain enough experience that you start questioning whether or not your really want … Read entire article »
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Prayer Journaling Difficulties and Solutions
Our youth have been prayer journaling for a week now using a method that I outlined in the Prayer Journaling Orientation video posted a week ago. Last Sunday we discussed their experiences. In today’s brief video I share 5 common difficulties they encountered and 3 “triggers” for being consistent. They have had some really awesome God-incidence stories happen because of their prayer journaling. I can’t wait to see what a couple more weeks of journaling is going to yield. You can expect more video posts on the lessons they learn. On another note…Today’s video has a cleaner , crisper audio signal with more volume range over prior videos. Unfortunately, in my efforts to improve audio I ran into a technical difficulty resulting in audio coming through only the left channel. My … Read entire article »
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