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Guest feature: Meeting God in the Pages
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Guest feature: Meeting God in the Pages

Meeting God in the Pages.

by Jenny Fulton, author and blogger

A pastor on social media recently posed the following comment and question: “The Bible was written by some 40 different people. Why do you think God used so many different people rather than just one person to convey His message and His Word?”

I thought it was an intriguing question…

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Word Shift (part two): busy to full…receive instead of take…
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Word Shift (part two): busy to full…receive instead of take…

A few months ago, I shared another new thing: the practice of word shift. I was introduced to this practice through spiritual direction. Spiritual direction has been a place of opening up my life to “God’s wide open spaces. His expansive grace, love, and abundance.” Although this new thing began taking formation some time ago, it seems fitting for the renewing ways…

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Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study
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Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study

This month I invite you to join me in the Scriptures with an open heart to what God longs to reveal to us.

This is a suggestion of a slow reading, prayerful and responsive study for God to form, renew, and transform our hearts and living…

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Compassion. Leadership. And Fiction.
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Compassion. Leadership. And Fiction.

Picking up these two books has been renewing, transforming, and a gentle challenge.

Two themes of yearning in my life for growth and greater awareness that I was really struggling with and praying into. Through these readings, I have found clarity, gracefulness, and deepening of trust in my calling and journey in faith.

If you are just curious, or struggling with leading, or burnout…

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