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Fear of Moving Forward

By: admin | Date: April 7, 2017 | Categories: encouragement

Yes, I’m feeling the fear… You’re on the verge of making some exciting positive change in your life, when suddenly you feel it: the cold, iron grip of the status quo. Even though part of you is excited about the possibility of change — a new job, a new home, a new relationship — there’s […]

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Wisdom from @jenwatts

By: admin | Date: March 25, 2017 | Categories: encouragement

More often than we realize fear is the compass of our lives. Thank Goodness Love whispers, many times each a day, “There is another Way…” The greatest act of Courage is to reveal who you really are. First to yourself. Then to others. We’re attracted to narcissists because they seem to be in control, w/o […]

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Want to Grow?

By: admin | Date: February 28, 2012 | Categories: surveys

About 82% of Americans say they want to grow spiritually, but they lack the practices and disciplines to do so. – George Gallup found in Pastors.com

Water Breaks Stone

By: admin | Date: | Categories: quotes

The nature of water is soft; that of stone is hard; but if a bottle is hung above the stone, allowing the water to fall drop by drop, it wears away the stone. So it is with the Word of God; it is soft and our heart is hard, but the man who hears the […]

What? Change?

By: admin | Date: | Categories: humor, quotes

Presbyterians have traditionally been…well, traditional. And we have traditionally been slow to change. When churches started using a new high technology instrument called the pipe organ, Presbyterians were among the last churches to get on board with the new wind of change, insisting songs must always be sung without accompaniment. There’s the joke – How […]

The Wisdom of Change

By: admin | Date: | Categories: quotes

CONFUCIOUS SAY… “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” -Appel and Nelson, How to Change Your Church, p. 313. No one volunteers for change or growth. We only change when we’re in pain. When the pain of staying the way we are exceeds our fear of change – that’s when we grow. [From […]