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Assumptions (What We Can Learn from Moses about Making Mistakes)

Acting on assumptions can lead to all manner of blunders, can’t it? I have a friend who once took her …

The Way of the Maker

That Sunday started out like any other day, me sitting quietly in the sunroom, in the early morning darkness, before …

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Is there a difference between making disciples and making believers?I’m not sure what I would have thought of an article like this even five years ago…but I sure know what I think about it now. THIS IS GOLD! This is exactly what God has been doing in my life for the past five years, one baby step at a time. Reading neurotheologian Jim Wilder’s words here have brought me to tears of gratitude that God didn’t give up on me, that He tenderly taught me how to attach my heart to His in a deeper, more transformative way than I even knew was possible.You’ve heard me say it before: Duty didn’t have the power to keep me on my feet or put me back on them again. Only love had the power to do that. Not determination. Not willpower. Not even habit. Only love. You hear me talk about it on the podcast all the time, that night and day difference of meeting the Living Word with the eyes of our heart…not just the written word with the eyes of our head.Love is not some wishy washy foundation to build our lives on. It is the unshakable foundation we were created for! It is the only thing powerful enough to rescue us, change us, and restore us to our “ancient and beautiful abode” (as A.W. Tozer put it) in the heart of God.This is a short article that’s well worth the read, if these highlights pique your interest…✏️“Ever since the Enlightenment what we believe has tended to replace who we love as the deciding factor in Christian life…a chain of beliefs builds upon one of the weakest links to character in the brain.”✏️“‘I don’t know any soteriology of attachment,’ the late Dr. Dallas Willard said to me as we sat in his living room. He encouraged me to explore how attachment love in the brain connected to the ways we are ‘being saved’ through the process of discipleship.”✏️“What if Jesus really meant it when He said that He would reveal Himself only to those who love Him? That only those who love can keep His words?”✏️“Attachment is not learned through ideas in the way we usually interpret the word believe. Attachment grows from the kind of intimacy (yada) that produces an unfailing trust (belief or faith) in the goodness of the other.”🎧 If you’d prefer to listen to the article read, you can click here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a-relationship-not-a-religion-wilder/id1482692675?i=1000478042828 ... See MoreSee Less

“It’s a Relationship, Not a Religion”: The Scientific Truth behind This Common Christian Phrase

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Pastor Resources · A Relationship Not A Religion – Wilder Jesus told his followers to “Go . . . make disciples.” (Matthew 28:19). We generally read the passage to say, “Go make believers.” ...

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Assumptions (What We Can Learn from Moses about Making Mistakes)

The Way of the Maker

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