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Likes the Least
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The other day as we were all standing around the kitchen after dinner, I posed a question to each family member. “Who in this family do you think likes you the least and why do you think that?” I hear Ethan say sarcastically, “This isn’t going to end well.” For half...
Pull Apart the Clouds
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We’re taking off from Denver airport on a rainy afternoon. The gray cloud cover is thick and sticky. Our struggling plane inches into the clouds and suddenly the windows swoosh into darkness. We’re encased in the storm. But then, all at once, we peek just above cloud line into...
Warfare
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If I could only make one contribution in my lifetime, it would not be what you think. It would not be in inner healing, believe it or not although I value that deeply. If I could only make one contribution, it would be to erase the epidemic lie in the Body of Christ that the more...
Inner Child
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A weakness of the inner healing movement in Christianity in the last twenty years has been a tendency to over-literalize the concept of the “inner child.” It’s important to remember that while the metaphor of “inner child” is a useful one, it is still a...
Self-Esteem
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We think that the Gospel offers good self-esteem to replace the shame of our sin, but it doesn’t do that at all. The real Gospel doesn’t offer a strong, healthy ego. It offers freedom from ego entirely.
If you could step behind the veil just for a moment...
Inner Healing
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There has been a huge inner healing movement in the body of Christ over the last 20 years. The term “inner healing” refers to deep emotional healing from early life wounds. There are many different inner healing models in different Christian circles. What they all have in common is a...