Shameless Audacity

Church hurt is any type of emotional, spiritual, or physical harm that occurred by the church, its leaders, or its members. Maybe it was someone in your group that betrayed your trust. Maybe you feel you were wronged by the leadership in the church. Maybe you were even offended by something the pastor said on Sunday. What do you do with that? Everyone responds to church hurt differently. 

There are some things that I want you to con...

What do you do when you are so complacent that you become personally unsatisfied and you know God created you for more? You are stuck in a place of mediocrity and you just don’t know how to get unstuck? Let’s talk about it. Here are some steps for not being complacent:

• Seek God with your whole heart! 
• Level up your spiritual disciplines!
• Stop living off of yesterday’s victories and seek new ones! 

Here are some questions to ch...

At some point during my childhood, I developed an addiction to approval that has carried over into adulthood. There was no pivotal moment. It was just a series of events throughout my life. We learn very quickly as children that if we get good grades, make the team, help others, do everything that is expected, then people will be pleased with us. So what has God been teaching me about breaking this addiction to people-pleasing?

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This week we’re talking regret. What do you do when you make a decision and after you’ve made that decision regret begins to overwhelm you? Unfortunately, there will come times when we will have regret, which If not managed correctly, becomes like an anchor that keeps us sinking to a bottomless sea of regret which then overcomes us with waves of grief. Grief?!?! Yes, I said GRIEF! 

When you’re drowning in regret:

• don’t get distra...

Have you ever felt frustration that builds inside because you know your calling and you know the promises in your life, but you’re not exactly living it out? The definition of frustration is “a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs” (Merriam-Webster, 2021). When you combine the promises of God and a deep sense of unfulfillment, I like to call it Holy frus...

Each season of life comes with its own joys and challenges! While living through each season sometimes we can't wait for it to end and sometimes we never want it to end. I remember bringing my children home from the hospital when they were born, now they are all grown up and have flown the coop.  Here are some lessons I learned during those years:

• Lesson #1 I learned there is a time for everything. 
• Lesson #2 I learned how t...

In Part 1, we spoke about Joseph in Genesis 37 where his brothers tried to kill his dream by killing him. In that episode, we discussed 6 ways you can identify people in your life who kill your dreams, passions, and ideas. This episode, Part 2 Dream Builder, describes 8 ways to identify a Dream Builder:

1. Dream builders are people of action (Genesis 39: 2-6)
2. They help others accomplish dreams even though they haven’t accomplished t...

This episode is about dream killers. Dream killers are people who tear down your dream because they have none of their own or they are unwilling to make the sacrifices you made to achieve them. The Bible talks about dream killers. The story of Joseph gives us 6 ways to identify a dream killer!

1. Dream killers find it difficult to speak life into your dream (Genesis 37: 4b)
2. Dream killers hear the dream, and become jealous (Genesis 3...

Ready, Set , Go - Being ready when God calls you to action, having the faith to move forward!

Noah was asked to walk in obedience in a BIG way. Noah teaches us to:

1) Prepare for the opportunity we don’t see
2) Learn to recognize the voice of the Lord
3) When you hear the Lord do it with faith, do it afraid, and do it immediately:

• faith disrupts your normal
• faith requires sacrifice
• faith makes us uncomfor...