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What Is This Obsession with Soul?

by Derek Leave a Comment

We are on a 31 day journey of chasing soul. It occurs to me I have not defined my terms. What do I mean by 'chasing soul'? What is this obsession with soul?When I speak of chasing soul, I mean learning to live out of a deeper reality. Rather than flit and fly along the surface, buffeted by every breeze, we live out of an anchored soul-level place. Brent Curtis and John … [Read more...] about What Is This Obsession with Soul?

When You Don’t Need to Know All the Details

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I've been thinking a lot about a quote from Bob Goff in his encouraging book Love Does. Every time one of his children turned ten, he took them on an adventure of their choosing. Very little planning...all heart and gusto. He draws parallels between those adventures and the one Jesus calls us to: Even though Jesus' disciples were older, they must have felt like my kids … [Read more...] about When You Don’t Need to Know All the Details

Your Story Is Beautiful

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Your story is beautiful. I hope you know that. Every nuance, every twist, every banal and trivial detail...it is all more beautiful than you know. When you share your story, I glimpse soul. I see my soul and I learn, as I see your soul displayed. Don't hide your story. Tell it. I will do a better job of listening. I will slow down. I won't try to fix you. I won't … [Read more...] about Your Story Is Beautiful

Thirsty and Vulnerable

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To come in contact with soul is to encounter thirst and vulnerability. I often wish there was another way. I wish I could step into deep and rich places of beauty and wonder and divinity without having to experience my own need, without having to know my absolute desperation, but soul and thirst and vulnerability are intertwined. To find soul, to press into the deep places … [Read more...] about Thirsty and Vulnerable

A New York Adventure

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We were supposed to be visiting a seminary in Boston. We had flown up the night before, scoped out the Commons, visited some classes, but we were hankering The Big Apple. Chris and I were never ones to shy away from adventure, so we did some research and discovered a bus that goes from Boston's Chinatown to New York's Chinatown for a only few bucks. We were all in. I … [Read more...] about A New York Adventure

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