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EP 368: Breaking Barriers: Making Room for God’s Overflow

Do you feel like you’ve hit a limit in your faith, your purpose, or your capacity? In this episode, Christine Caine unpacks Isaiah 54:1–3 to remind us that God calls His people to enlarge, stretch, lengthen, and strengthen so they can carry…

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Gluttony: The Case of Achan

In the Middle Ages, theologians said there are different forms of gluttony—that you can eat and drink excessively, sumptuously, daintily, or impulsively. Technically, gluttony means to eat and drink immoderately. But gluttony also tells us something about each of us. Gluttony is taking something good and then cramming it in until we’re sick of it….

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CNLP 759 | Preaching Through Depression — Faith Eury Cho on Mental Health, the Holy Spirit, and Gen Z

Preaching is hard, no matter how you approach it. But throw planting a church during lockdown, a life-long struggle with mental health and anxiety, and planting in a tough to reach area in the mix, and you have a recipe for challenge. Faith Eury Cho…

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Four Essential Questions For Being Wise With Your Words

Knowing when and how to speak up can be challenging. Emerson Eggerichs gives insight on how to have healthy conversations with others confidently. By asking ourselves, “Is it true, kind, necessary, and clear?” we may find ourselves engaging in more genuine and effective conversations. Get Emerson Eggerichs’ book “Speak Your Mind” for your donation of…

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Envy: The Case of Israel

There’s a sickness in us. We are cruel to each other in ways we cannot seem to heal. We have an inveterate kind of unhappiness in our hearts we can’t seem to put out.  For the last hundred years, the reigning Western understanding of why we are so cruel and unhappy has been that it…

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Bringing Home the Prodigals (Part 2 of 2)

As the father of a prodigal child, Rob Parsons understands your pain.In this heartfelt message, he encourages parents of prodigals to always “leave a light on” for their wayward child.He notes that sometimes parents carry too much guilt over the prodigal child’s circumstances, and also encourages us to not be overly critical of our children….

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CNLP 758 | Does Simple Church Still Work? Eric Geiger on What Scales and Why Older Church Leaders Need to Die to Themselves

Nearly twenty years after releasing his groundbreaking book Simple Church, Eric Geiger reflects on why complexity still doesn’t scale, how complexity subtly creeps in as you grow, and what he’s learned since he started leading Mariners Church. He…

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Bringing Home the Prodigals (Part 1 of 2)

As the father of a prodigal child, Rob Parsons understands your pain. In this heartfelt message, he encourages parents of prodigals to always “leave a light on” for their wayward child. He notes that sometimes parents carry too much guilt over the prodigal child’s circumstances, and also encourages us to not be overly critical of…

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Duplicity: The Case of Peter

After he broke his promise to Jesus, Peter wept bitterly. Peter was an absolutely broken man in the profoundest possible way, and yet within weeks he was poised as the leader of a new movement, about to become one of the most influential leaders in the history of the world. What broke Peter like this,…

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