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Set Like Stone

Set Like Stone #4Streams #WalkingWithGod #ReceivingGodsCounsel

This has been trying a season.  As I wrote in the last couple weeks, I really felt God shaking the ground under my feet to get my attention.  With circumstances as they are right now, and not having the margin I had to pursue the hearts of others the way I had hoped, this week, I found myself very discouraged.  That feeling of, “how will I get out of this situation?”  I realized what the evil one…

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Shaking Under My Feet

Shaking Under My Feet #4Streams #WalkingWithGod #ReceivingGodsCounsel

There have been a lot of good things that have happened these last few years.  2 years ago, I completed my Counseling Masters and have been working with people the last 3 years.  That has been very fruitful and challenging all at the same time.  At the same time, I partnered with some brothers to begin leading weekend men’s boot camps (not your normal retreat).  During all this time, I’ve held on…

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Distraction or Calculation

Distraction or Calculation #4Streams #SpiritualWarfare #WalkingWithGod

A friend set it best the other day. “2019 has been unique.”  We’re only at the end of March and it feels like a years worth of things have already happened.  When I last wrote in January, I was in a place of excitement for what I knew God was beginning to open up and what we were stepping into.  By February and into March, it seemed that their was so much opposition being thrown our way.  In…

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Giving God Your 'Yes'

Giving God Your 'Yes' #4Streams #WalkingWithGod

Last weekend, I was blessed with the opportunity to spend a weekend with ministry allies.  It was a weekend filled with men who were moving on the same mission God has led me and lead ministry movements in different capacities.  It was such fruitful time of getting to have good conversation with like-hearted men and even get an opportunity to reflect with God on where I am in my own journey…

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Rooted and Steadfast #4Streams #WalkingWithGod #GodsCounsel #RootedAndSteadfast Well here we are, the end of a another year.  Another trip around the sun.  There are so many things to reflect on as I look back on what 2018 had. 

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Learned Along The Way

Learned Along The Way #4Streams #WalkingWithGod #Parenting

I’ve learned all there is to know about parenting and being a dad…..False.  This morning, I find myself doing a great deal of reflecting about life as a parent.  Today, my oldest son, Shawn, turned 21 years old.  21…Wow!!!  I look back and think where did it all go?  How did 21 years pass by so quickly?  When going through some pictures for a birthday post, I ran across a picture from Shawn’s…

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The Numbers Don't Lie - Manhood Crisis

The Numbers Don't Lie - Manhood Crisis #4Streams #WalkingWithGod #DeepRestoration

It should be no mystery to any of us that there are many in this world that have lost their way and are checked out of what’s going in their families. There are many men that have simply abandoned their families.  Think of the sheer number of households with single mom’s is staggering.  According to statistics in 2017, nearly 10 million households in US are single-mother homes.  Now lets couple…

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Seeking More of God

Seeking More of God #4Streams #WalkingWithGod #MoreOfGod #FreeToLive

As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. Psalm 42:1.

There’s been a lot going on of late.  A lot of busyness, a lot of struggle, a lot of suffering.  A lot.  It seems that everywhere we turn, we have friends that are getting knocked down in one way or another.  At the end of last week, we hit a big challenge, as the transmission of my truck, which I depend on for…

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