(I am in Switzerland with some friends/Swiss allies teaming together in presenting a Boot Camp. I’m hoping to post several reflections on this experience.)
Throughout the Boot Camp men pulled me...
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Craig McConnell
(I am in Switzerland with some friends/Swiss allies teaming together in presenting a Boot Camp. I’m hoping to post several reflections on this experience.)
Throughout the Boot Camp men pulled me...
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I was looking for some reading the other day to feed my soul, to supplement my time in the Scriptures. Browsing the bookshelves in my office, I sort of picked up one book then another, opened it, read a little, and set it back down. Nope, that’...
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So Lori tells me our daughter is bleeding. She’s 17 weeks pregnant 1276 miles away in The City of the Angels. My heart begins to swell. I call her and hear just beneath the surface of her always-joyful life giving voice the silver tongued devil...
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I’m sitting in the sound booth through the second session of our Advanced Conference listening to John speak. At some point my mind wanders… I’m musing* about “teaching “and God nudges me asking,
When did you enjoy teaching most?
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So, we take to the road tomorrow for the Fathered by God tour. Really excited to be heading out.
Except, a blizzard is descending on Colorado, so we are scrambling to get to Denver tonight, in hopes of still catching our (re-scheduled)...
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Errands done, garage straightened up, work project finished, yard work done, emails checked. It’s snowing, cold… breezy. I’m leaning back in my desk chair…
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday… inhale, exhale. Lord, shift my heart to Easter.
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Stasi and I were flying back from New York’s La Guardia airport last Friday, scheduled for a 10:30am departure. Foul weather grounds our plane, due in from Washington Dulles. First an hour goes by, then two. Okay, we can handle a delay. But at...
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I’m sitting in the sound booth during the first session of our Men’s Advanced Conference listening to John Eldredge. At some point my mind shifts from John and whether or not the canvas bottom “Directors” chair I’m sitting in will collapse to...
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It’s been Spring Break for my boys this week, and our family has been trying to catch our breath and just take it easy. Get some r & r. Watch some basketball, eat out, sleep in, goof around.
It hasn’t gone so well. The city decided...
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One accented theme woven into my life and world view is the forever and always presence of God. God is close. He is next to you wherever you may be. There is no place you are He isn’t.
“Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot...
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So, I try and call my parents every Sunday. We live states apart. (Actually, we live worlds apart, making even a phone call kind of weird.) So over the years we’ve kind of fallen to Sunday evenings as the best time to catch up. I think a lot of...
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It was evening. I was eight, my younger brothers and sisters had just been put to bed, mom and dad wanted to talk with me alone in the family room of our home.
Time stopped, winter began, and the earth’s rotation was altered, never again...
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So this guy interrupts Christ perturbed that his brother is unlawfully withholding his portion of the family inheritance… I’d be pissed too.
Someone in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance...
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Its morning.
In my favorite rotund leather chair with a wonderful cup of Sumatra I’m browsing through last year’s journal.
February 21, 2008I’m less concerned, maybe more accurately less “demanding” that I find the community I...
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On Tuesday I’m agitated.
I step into a colleague’s office to vent.
He spins around in his desk chair and welcomes my orneriness, listening, risking a couple of bold questions (one wrong...
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Lori and I are currently in a 12 week group hosted by a local church leader…
Is there anyone who wouldn’t want to regularly meet with a few others who are curious about you and your story; are pursuing God passionately; who listen well,...
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Lost
What open armed freedom to be lost in you A holy communion shared between two Yet reaching out, further up and farther in Open lines of glory, the kingdom within
I am lost in you Secretly bound to you...
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One of the heroes of faith for me is my friend Janie.
I will always remember the...
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One of the most common questions we are asked here at Wild at Heart is, “What do you do for church?”
Sometimes the question is posed as a sort of test – somewhere, somebody got the idea we are opposed to church. Not at all – we love the...
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Hey, it’s not uncommon to fight off a little cold right?
For a week I was snorting, sneezing, sniffling… tossing and turning through the night; downing vitamin C, guzzling water, doing the Zicam… and praying like a saint. Like a saint...
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