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Releasing Secrets
Finding Freedom, part 1 **The posts in this series include sensitive content. Please read with discretion and preview before sharing with younger readers.** There are some topics within the body of Christ that are rarely touched. They might be seen as too divisive, extreme or eccentric; or they may simply be left alone out of ignorance, or perhaps fear. One of these is the concept of deliverance. Defined simply, deliverance means to rescue, or to set free. In a spiritual context, deliverance is the act of setting a person free from the grip of the enemy, free to love and worship and walk with God in a full and unhindered…
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Unwrapping the Gift of Faith
Try as I might, I don’t remember being born. It was in the days before delivery room photographers shared the space with family and medical personnel to capture every moment on film. Still, even without such documentation, or even the testimony of many witnesses, I am convinced the event took place. I was unborn, and then I was born: simple as that. I don’t remember any better the moment I was born again, though I am just as certain it happened! I was raised in a Christian home, where loving Jesus seemed a matter of course. Faith is mixed in with my earliest memories. But I would no more say…
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The Final Word
I typically start out writing this kind of thing for myself, for personal healing, self-discovery. It’s a pattern God has established with me over the years: I write, He responds. Yet sometimes, in the midst of the process, the words take on a life of their own, as if the Spirit Himself is breathing into them, instilling them with a significance more far-reaching than anything I had intended. They are no longer mine; I am compelled to pass them on, in hopes that the freedom I receive can be multiplied. So if you are reading, this is for you. Fear is a deep, thick, ancient cancer curling around my heart,…
