INTIMACY
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How to Practice Mortification in Everyday Life
The ability to make sacrifices in service of a greater good is the hallmark of maturity. - Jordan Peterson Despite the horrors and negative connotations connected with its name, all mortification means is simply that one chooses what is right over how they "feel". It...
Top 10 Essential Habits for a Life of Deep Intimacy with God
Do you feel far away from God? Like He is there but inaccessible? In your mind He exists, but He doesn't really care? You've been trying, but failing, and an actual relationship with Him is starting to feel indistinct, inapproachable, and unattainable? Or, at best,...
2 Kinds of Peace – What is True Peace? & the Role of Holy Spirit
Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor afraid. - John 14:27 Peace is one of those words that gets tossed around a lot, especially in discernment circles. It’s so simple people think...
The Role of Religion in the Authentic Christian Life
I almost titled this post, "What's Religion got to do with it?", but the other title was better for SEO 🙂 Nevertheless, the question still stands. More and more and more people are dropping by the hour into believing that it it doesn't have much to do with anything -...
5 Essential Practices for a Vibrant Spiritual Life
I was talking to a friend the other day. “What should I do if I just feel blah about God?”, she asked, “I’m just not growing any more - not motivated, not changing – it’s tempting to just give up on God’s even being real at all. Where is the excitement, the joy, and...
5 Key Sources of Grace – GraceFilled Life Series
Sources of Grace - Christian Life of Grace Series Continued... In my last post in this series we talked about what Grace really is (and how it has been distorted), and that while it is all around us, much like oxygen, we still need to tap into it ever more fully and...
