Tag: Awareness
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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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Take This Life w/ Lyrics
This song is essentially a prayer and was written to express a desire to live as fully into the light of the Creator’s Love as I can. The youth at the church I used to serve challenged me to perform it in front of our congregation which has a predominantly white membership after hearing me…
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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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Living Loveward Ch. 5 – Love Never Fails
In reflecting on Abraham’s potential sacrifice of Isaac, Søren Kierkegaard said, “To love God without faith is to consider oneself. But, to love God with faith is to consider God.” As I walked and contemplated how I interpreted that statement in light of everything else he said, I felt inspired to talk about how—despite appearances…
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Living Loveward Ch. 4 – Love is Wild
Love is not safe or predictable. In truth, it is mysterious. And it is Wild. In this video, I try to communicate the awesomeness of this awareness. Don’t freak out. But True Love is ferocious in ways that we find it hard to comprehend. Welcome to the wildness of Love.
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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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Living Loveward
For most of us, love is not possible until we first feel safe. In this video, I explore why I think this is and challenge us to explore facing the fear that often prevents us from receiving the love we long for. Another post that connects to this awareness is The Sin of Overprotection. I…
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