Category: Awakening
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Conversation Catalyst or Conversation Coward?
Usually I write poems or long blogs to express my thoughts. This time I drew a picture. The point of the picture—if it’s not obvious—is that I think we are at a critical moment in the world when we can choose to be #ConversationCatalysts and foster a #CollaborativeCulture or we can be #ConversationCowards and devolve…
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Don’t Lose the Vision When You’re in the Valley
Many times in my life, I’ve come to the top of a mountain, metaphorically speaking, only to realize that my journey is leading me to yet another mountain. For years, I’ve tried to articulate this path in a way that is both descriptive and prescriptive for those who may also find themselves on a precipice…
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Diversity and Subcultures: Lessons from the Bronies
Recently, when speaking at a TEDx MileHigh Rethink Event, I shared a humbling experience I had with the Brony subculture back in 2013 that helped expand my awareness of cultural formation and how gathering or collectivizing around a certain set of values helps people transcend divides. Although “corporate culture” has made its way into the…
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Bearers of the Way
In many ways, this was one of the most taxing messages that I’ve delivered. Working on it compelled me to stare into a the pain of proselytizing and missionary activity around the world where people were robbed of their lands and culture and often left with nothing more than the very Bible that was used…
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Healing Nightmares
All of my life I have had really intense dreams, many of which are so solid feeling that when I awake, I initially can’t tell if I was dreaming or actually had the experience. Historically my dreams increase intensity until I listen. In recent weeks, l have had some really heavy ones. I am certain…
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The Case for Living Loveward (Full Sermon)
There’s something about the illusion of the better and easier and more predictable yesterday that often keeps us from going toward the unpredictable but more liberating future that awaits us just on the other side of doing something different. And it is toward this that I believe is the call of living Loveward.
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Loving Loveward Ch. 3 – Love is a Mystery
Why do you love anyone? I bet you have a lot of “reasons” and most of us want to know the “reasons” people love us. And yet, most of us want “unconditional love “ which is essentially love for no reason. In this video, I invite listeners to consider the possibility that the Greatest access…
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Living Loveward Ch. 2 – Certainty Kills Relationships
Most of us imagine that if we just had certainty, all of our relationships would run more smoothly. Like most love myths, it’s probably not true. In this video, I challenge hearers to ask ourselves if we really want what we say we want from our relationships.
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The Great Fullness of Be Longing
What does it mean to belong? In my opinion you can get a sense of its meaning if you looked at the featured image on this post or on the attached video. The image is of what appears to be graffiti art of these little dots of a variety of colors coming together to create…
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Citizens of the Spiritocracy
As I have lifted up many times in other sermons, in the Lord’s Prayer, we pray for God’s kingdom to come and for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. We are literally asking for God’s Way to take precedence in the working out of our lives. In other words,…
