Author: Adventures

Adolescence can be such a horrible, unforgiving time. There you are changing and not knowing what to make of it all. You’re caught between childhood and adulthood and often all you feel is awkward. Snakes go off and hide when they molt. Butterflies make a cocoon and transform in darkness. But God bless them, teenagers have to go through all that change right out in front of everyone. Bodies change, voices change, faces change. And often the process is attended by a lot of humiliating pain.  Where is the manual that explains what’s going on and how to cope? It’s an...

Today we move on to taking an inventory of the pain in our adult life.    The point of all this is effort is that we want freedom from the pain of the past. We know that it is the truth that sets us free. So we are pressing into the truth.   To encourage you as a coach might encourage an athlete before a tough match, I want to give you an example of what it can look like from my own life.   A few months ago I took this course myself, as I came to this day, I knew God was prompting me to let a truth set me free.     I shared about a painful season in my...

You’ve lost so much in life. And when we lose things that have touched our hearts, we feel pain. We can’t help it, God set it up that way. The problem is that often we just can’t handle the pain at the time.  There’s too much pain already. Our hearts were bruised and never healed. We began to feel it would be better to just lock the pain away and not acknowledge it. Survival was at stake, and the pain was inconvenient, illegitimate even. So here’s what we humans do – we take that part of our heart that was wounded and we shut it down in some...

If you were to make a list – an inventory of all the situations and people that have hurt you over the years, would there be any hurts that you’ve hidden? Who would be at the top of your list of people who have hurt you? God wants us to face our pain, walk through it and heal.  If we continue to just push our pain down, we may never learn to truly heal.   Truth sets us free First, Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. And it is the truth (Jesus) that sets us free. The enemy of our souls specializes in lies. He wants to create a reality distortion...

Course Details   1. Safety & confidentiality: We commit to both as a requirement of the course. I put your email addresses in the bcc section of the email. We can use one another’s first names, but at this point, we’ll keep this boundary. I will moderate the group and if at some point the safety of the group is compromised, I will email you privately. Most of you don’t know one another, but there’s a good chance that we have a stellar group here. I think you have a chance to benefit one another.   2. Length of course: 2 1/2 months...

Course Details   1. Safety & confidentiality: We commit to both as a requirement of the course. I put your email addresses in the bcc section of the email. We can use one another’s first names, but at this point, we’ll keep this boundary. I will moderate the group and if at some point the safety of the group is compromised, I will email you privately. Most of you don’t know one another, but there’s a good chance that we have a stellar group here. I think you have a chance to benefit one another.   2. Length of course: 2 1/2 months...