Is Your Compassion Promoting a Victim Mentality?
Did you know a heart filled compassion can unintentionally enable a victim mentality? Do you realize your eager attempts of making things “right” may actually cause greater “wrongs?” I see well-meaning brothers and sisters, with a desire to accept and love others, while actually encouraging “victim behavior” in hurting individuals. Before we look into the…
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Family Update from Duane–June 25, 2020
Hello friends. Today is an amazing gift from God and we are rejoicing in it. Recently, I’ve been challenged and am putting into practice greater times of focused quietness and listening to God. For too much of my life, my time with God was filled with mental, intellectual activity. Reading the Bible and praying are…
[ Read More ]Why Did God Create Evil? (And How We Overcome It)
I can’t breathe… If you’re like I am, you may be tired of the rampant evil in our world. But did you know God created the horrendous evil we see around us? Yes, I did just say that… Since God is all about love, joy and peace, why would I say He created these atrocities?…
[ Read More ]Family Update from Duane–June 11, 2020
Greetings from NC. “To be empty of created things is to be full of God: To be empty of God is to be full of created things.” I was recently challenged and encouraged by this concept. As individuals, we are going to be full of something, whether earthly and temporal or full of the things of…
[ Read More ]Family update from Duane–May 28, 2020
Greetings to each of you. As things in our shifting, hurting world give us opportunities to rely on God, the privilege of being God’s child becomes a greater blessing. We certainly don’t know what our future will hold, but we’re confident God will be in it with us. Our family has recently again been…
[ Read More ]Christians are called to surrender “rights”– not responsibilities.
This world feels strange to me. It’s not my home. I feel unwanted. Almost an intruder. I have a deep ache for more…So much more than this life has to offer. To feel unwelcome here is NOT a tragedy. The life we’re living right now isn’t truly living. The body we’re in isn’t really us….
[ Read More ]Should Christians Obey All Government Laws?
Never before have our lives been so drastically impacted and changed by those in authority. Each of us are facing decisions we never thought we’d need to make. There is much turmoil, confusion, fear, discouragement and uncertainty. Which is exactly what I believe the Enemy intended. I realize this post may be controversial. In all…
[ Read More ]Family Update from Duane–May 14, 2020
Hello to each of you from our NC home. Our family has experienced an extraordinary event as we’ve watched winter turn into spring and now as we begin moving towards summer, all while being at home. We have never experienced this before. In fact, this was the first year Brianna and Alisha remember celebrating their…
[ Read More ]Family Update from Duane–April 30, 2020
Like I suspect many of you, I’ve lost track which day of shut down we are in. It would be tempting to focus solely on the plans to reopen America, but I have been intentional in making the most of these present days. We know we are in a daily race against time, and we…
[ Read More ]Facebook Live Stream 04/15/20
Duane and Cindy went live on Facebook to talk about something they feel like they need to share during the COVID-19 situation. There is so much confusion…who’s voice should we be listening to? Who has authority in this situation? And what should our response be as Christians? They hope sharing their experience will help bring…
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