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You’re not a Bible teacher.
You’re not a motivational guy.
You’re not a content creator.
You’re a noticer. A thread-puller. A guide for the kind of people who sense God in a leaf but aren’t always sure what to do with that.
You’re doing what Jesus did—pointing to birds and mustard seeds and vineyard workers and saying, “See that? That’s what the
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The importance of patience and cultivation in well-doing, emphasizing the long, invisible process between planting and reaping.
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Eugene Peterson suggests that the person who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed.
If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight.
There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping.
During
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Faith isn’t just the foundation of our relationship with God—it’s also the soil where real friendship grows.
Abraham believed God—and that belief wasn’t passive. It was the active trust that said, “Wherever You go, I’ll follow."
That trust made space for companionship. Not just obedience, but closeness.
That kind of belief says:
I trust your heart.
The way of the Spirit is not a gentle downhill grade. Often, walking with the Spirit is an uphill trudge through all sorts of distractions and difficulties. But while the path is winding and difficult, you are constantly moving in a particular direction, and that direction is set by the leading of the Spirit. At some point along the way, you agreed
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