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It is always the transformation of the smallest part that leads to the transformation of the whole. 
We groan and cry out in this painful life experience together. 
The cold, hard fact is that there are prayers that God does not answer.
Who can stand before this cosmically-sized love without being completely transformed?
The word wrath isn’t an unloading of God’s fury and rage on the unrepentant.
The forgiveness of God is unconditional and preemptive.
You may not trust these words now, but there is hope in your pain and suffering.
God, I am done with you.
For the words we use can be powerful weapons that wound, kill, and destroy, or instruments of blessing, healing, and life.
I can't overstate how important it is for each of us to have people in our lives that we allow to speak truth to us.
Our communities are in desperate need of people who love each other and seek out Truth in love and who can hear it without egos and attitudes.
The truth is that I was afraid that they might perceive me as a salesman or as having some sort of an agenda, even though neither of those are true of me.
“Oh my goodness. I thought you were some homeless guy and I wasn’t even going to pay attention to you.”
We have a tendency toward prolonging or avoiding pain because we believe it is too painful to deal with, but by avoiding it we prolong the inevitable.
When did we get so thin-skinned and so easily offended by everything that people say or do to us as Christians?
Every single time we take the humble and submissive way of Christ, it may look like defeat for you as an individual.
The truth of the matter is that there is nothing wrong with recognizing the fact that there are times when God does not answer prayer the way that I would like. And sometimes that means the unanswered prayer will make my life hard…sometimes unbearable…but it doesn’t mean that God is not there suffering with me or that God has turned against me and does not love me.
Through worship, the Spirit of God breaks out into the world in prayer, in praise, in service putting broken pieces back together.