Tag: Discipleship
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From Church Hurt to Covenant: I Survived Religion
Honestly… it’s not even “church hurt” at this point. It’s the story of how God found me underneath religion, performance, abandonment, confusion, survival mode, and disappointment and still said: “Live.” I left church at 19. I was told I could no longer attend Wednesday Bible Studies—only Sundays. At 18, I had rejoined the church even…
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Chosen: The Difference Between Being Called and Responding
For most of my life, I believed being “chosen” meant your life would be harder than everyone else’s. I was taught — directly and indirectly — that the more suffering you endured, the more “chosen” you were by God. The phrase “God’s strongest soldiers” was often used to explain trauma, family dysfunction, abandonment, rejection, and…
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What Trauma Is & How to Heal: A Christ-Led Whole-Person Approach
Understanding trauma, the body, and the process of healing through a Christ-led, whole-person approach. March 18, 2022… God met me at the lowest point of my life. Not the “I’m having a rough week” kind of low… I’m talking about:no jobno carfacing evictionemotionally and physically drained Everything around me was unstable. But what I didn’t…
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Spiritual Warfare Explained: Strongholds, Trauma & Behavioral Cycles
Bridging Biblical Language with Real-Life Patterns Most people hear words like strongholds and spiritual warfare and immediately interpret them as something external, mystical, or happening to them. The language can feel distant from everyday life, as if it belongs only in sermons or moments of crisis. But Scripture is not vague. It is precise, and…
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The Two Realities We Live In: The System vs The Kingdom
Before You Read This (2-Minute Orientation) This is not a quick read. It’s a breakdown of something most people feel…but don’t have language for. If you’ve ever felt like something about life, systems, or even religion doesn’t fully make sensethis will help you understand why. This message confronts the difference between what we were taught…and…
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The Cost of the Cross: Why Transformation Isn’t Easy
If We Understood the Cost of the Cross, We Wouldn’t Break Covenant with Abba This message was written… but also spoken ↓ As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve [disciples] aside, and along the way He said to them, 18 “Listen carefully: we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son…