When we've come to believe toxic things like "I'm on my own; friends will turn on me," Jesus has refreshing and smart suggestions on how we might change our minds.
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Our anxiety levels are not a secondary matter to God. Finding a happy, content, restful heart at any given moment seems to be a major player in life going well. But day-in, day-out, that is a fight! (As a day in the life of Vince proves...)
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BLV's resident spiritual director walks us through the stakes of anxiety in his spiritual life and how, in small practical ways on any given day, he has learned to make choices out of something other than anxiety.
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A day in the life of BLV pastor Kyle Hanawalt, in which he realizes that God (brilliantly) wants to give him peace before giving him guidance. How? Through conversational prayer.
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Learning from the ahead-of-their-time progressivesness of the earliest church feasts and 12 practical ways to live out and enjoy the resurrection of Jesus
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"We're under attack!"... "No, we're under attack!" That seems to be the story of every divide in our world, whether societal or personal. In the accounts of Jesus remembered on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, there is an inspiring example of how we might engage divides more productively.
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In his day, Jesus took aim at the Pharisees, who inflamed contentious attitudes through their removed analysis of society and their focus on holding the right opinions. The draw toward such attitudes is in us all, but Jesus modeled engagement with people that can break the power of those attitudes in us.
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Contentiousness boils below the surface seemingly everywhere in society, often leaving us feeling apathetic, exasperated, or cynical. An obscure moment in the history of Ancient Israel can teach us about God's prescription for us when we feel these ways.
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A seven-minute meditation and guided prayer experience, as we mark the beginning of the 40-day period of Lent leading up to Easter Sunday.
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In its more innocuous forms, tribalism is a Cubs fan's dislike of White Sox fans. But tribalism is the story of us all in much more high stakes ways. How can we fight the tendency to see the world as "us vs. them" (and help curb its horrible consequences)?
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