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As Lent draws to a close: evaluate and grow
We have only a few days of Lent left. Many of you adopted disciplines or gave some thing up. I hope that has gone very well for you. If not, you can still benefit from the experience. I have discovered that there is as much learning to be done in reflecting upon your Lenten experience afterwards as there is during it. This is particularly true if you had a bad experience or feel you failed. I highly encouraged you this weekend or on Easter day to reflect on the season of Lent and journal about your experience. Journaling will push you to clarify what you have learned. Here are 10 questions to consider. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your … 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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