"In Him was life, and that life was the light of men." John 1:4 NIV I was just sitting here the other day in my room talking to God about some things I don’t understand, like how I can still feel so unsatisfied and incomplete even though He is my Father and always near. A …
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Facing Pain: Don’t Neglect Your Heart, part 2
I think sometimes that our pain and our frustrations can lead us into truth and breakthrough. And I think that so many of us fail to see the truth or experience breakthrough in our lives simply because we don’t allow ourselves to feel the pain or to acknowledge “what’s wrong.” Pain doesn’t feel right. And …
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A Concealed Invitation
I was at an event the other night in which the speaker brought up an interesting point about a topic that has become incredibly important to both my art and my faith journey. I was automatically challenged in my heart to explore, dig deeper, and ask some internal questions concerning this topic because something bothered …
Identifications
Discover who you are and every other need, want, and question will fade away. Truly, it is identity that changes everything. Go with me here, because I think God has allowed me to begin to understand something that at its core has the power to literally transform the world if embraced. So, for a moment, …
Boxes
I want to talk a little more about boxes. For a while now I’ve been on this sort of quest towards freedom—towards a different way of thinking that will transform the way I act and live. To get there, all the boxes that have been constructed in my paradigm must be destroyed. So I’ve been …
The Man Who Passed By: Following the King of Contradiction (part 2)
John 1: 35-36 “The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God!’ The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.” What would compel two men, based on a simple word from the one …
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Don’t Neglect Your Heart
To be whole. Is this a paradox to a humanity that is hopelessly broken? I’ve been in my own process in the recent months of learning to understand who I am as a person, what state my heart is in, and to embrace the point I’m at in the process of becoming who I’m made …
Surrender: Finding Peace in the Kingdom of Contradiction (part 1.5)
Isn’t it funny how it’s only when we let go of our need for something that we truly find what we’re looking for? In the way of life modeled by Jesus of Nazareth, releasing equals receiving. A backwards rule for an upside-down Kingdom. Surrender your desires and you’ll find the life that your heart longs …
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Unqualified: Living in the Kingdom of Contradiction (part 1)
In the beginning chapters of First Corinthians we find Paul elaborating to the church in Corinth about how God uses the foolish things to shame the wise so that it will not be man’s power or wisdom that receives credit, but God alone. Because how, except with God, could something foolish create something spectacular? I …
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The Ache of Beauty
What is beauty? Is there an answer to that question, or is it—as the saying goes—truly in the eye of the beholder? I think beauty is a lot like truth: relative, if you look at it a certain way. But when it all comes down to it not one of us can elude the reality …
Denica McCall 