Are You Holding Back?
Is there anyone who really knows you, who has experienced the big events of your life with you, who knows your feelings and perspectives? You may have a few people who have shared in some (or even most) of the significant happenings of your life, but no one has really been there with you through them all. Even the people who have been with you haven’t really seen and experienced what you have. They have seen things from their own unique perspective. They may have experienced many things with you, but not inside you. Only God knows you like that!  Every memory that you have can be shared with God. He was there, not just with you but WITH you. He is the only One with whom you will ever really, really, really be able to share your life. He knows you inside out (literally and figuratively), and He wants to share your life with you.
So, why do we so often keep God at a distance, only sharing “our religious lives” with Him? Is it because we think that if we hide some aspects of our lives, ...
An Invitation to God's Healing, Deepening and New Direction - Podcast
Click Here to Tune in to hear this astounding and inspiring story of redemption, healing and hope.
It was a delight to sit with Joe Fornear, a long-time friend of mine from high school days. I KNOW that you, too, will be encouraged to hear what he has to share.
In this podcast, you will hear some of Joe's honest reflections on
- Â life lived as a self-professed "racecar that needed a steering wheel".
- Â his own mental health struggles
- relational struggles with profound effects
- God's interventions and "glorious salvation"
- the impactful gifts of those who invested in him
- his diagnosis of Late Stage Metastatic Melanoma
- an oncologist's shocking "death sentence" when no more could be doneÂ
- God's MIRACULOUSÂ healing
- how God is moving in and through him today in an amazing and inspiring ministry
Really...You do not want to miss this one!
~ Coach Tom
Five Ways to Understand Your Uniqueness
God weaves a recipe of our family lines together, breathes life into our mother's womb and we are mysteriously and uniquely created. He then uses all kinds of things to shape us and make us who we are. Paying attention to these factors, articulating them and owning them is powerful.
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Your Life Story
Are you busy living your life, or are you aware of your storyline? Your life is an adventure – a novel to be read, a screenplay to be enacted. It is peppered with hopes, fears, destinies and barriers. It is an emotional and gripping tale.
This world is “fallen.” It is beautiful, and there is so much good within it. Yet, it is marred deeply by sin. The world is full of suffering, it touches every person and every corner of creation. We fall and we suffer ... it is part of every life, everyone’s story.
Psalm 107 is a great – “slow read.” We see again and again that when people were suffering, “They cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.” (Psalm 107:6, 13, 19, 28)
When we cry out to God - from that desperate place, He hears us - and we “know” it. Real prayers are desperate prayers. They are the prayers that rely on God. He delivers. He is good. He is merciful. He is wonderful.
Do not fear desperate circumstances. They will come, but i...
