Abandon

Explore the concept of ‘abandonment’ towards a life rich with God’s abundance, embracing authenticity and discovering one’s divine calling amidst life’s vulnerabilities.

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02 April 2019

Should We Celebrate the Loss of Innocence?

One day Andrew Shearman said something to me that stopped me in my tracks, “We need to celebrate the loss of innocence.” Celebrate the loss of innocenc…

25 October 2016

What Do We Need to Leave In Order to Grow Up?

My parents loved me the best they could, but our home was a claustrophobic place by the time I was 18. The four walls of my bedroom were not going to conta…

17 June 2015

Smart Phone Issue is Bigger Than We Realized

We knew it was an issue – we just didn’t realize how BIG an issue it was. When I blogged Should We Ban Smart Phones on the World Race? last week, over 200 co…

29 January 2013

Taking risks

To the degree you and I are living lives that are less than God's dream for us, we need a change. But there's the rub – that usually involve…

19 December 2012

The Hobbit is like the World Race

I took the Adventures staff to see The Hobbit yesterday. Travis Bonning explains the similarities with the World Race: You’ll have a tale or two to…

09 November 2012

The urge to leave

I wrote about coping with loss yesterday. No one likes losing (unless it's weight), but loss does have an upside. Once you've lost something, it do…

28 August 2012

Letting go of loved ones

One of my dear friends, Mark Almand, has written a beautiful and powerful book about fatherhood. It is called Claude’s Canvas. I highly recommend it – and yo…

19 July 2012

Did we miss our chance?

A blog reader wrote me to say: Today’s blog about the Haley’s could have been written about my husband and me 8 years ago — the American dream part. S…

18 July 2012

Leaving the American dream

Timothy Haley had it all. He’d graduated from law school and gotten married. And at 29, he had a great job with a respected law firm. But a trip to Africa la…

01 October 2011

Unplugging the cyborg self

I remember in 1984 watching “The Terminator” in the theater. Machines take over the world and cyborgs (part human, part machine) are their instrument of dest…

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Spiritual Formation Posts

Abandon

Should We Celebrate the Loss of Innocence?

What Do We Need to Leave In Order to Grow Up?

Smart Phone Issue is Bigger Than We Realized

Taking risks

The Hobbit is like the World Race

The urge to leave

Letting go of loved ones

Did we miss our chance?

Leaving the American dream

Unplugging the cyborg self

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