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More reflections and encouragement as we continue with Isaiah chapters 40-55. These are where the suffering servant passages are found. These are part of a larger story in Isaiah. Read these chapters and let them wash over you. It’s a great time before Advent to read the poetry of Isaiah and reflect on who God…

More reflections and encouragement as we continue with Isaiah chapters 40-55. These are where the suffering servant passages are found. These are part of a larger story in Isaiah. Read these chapters and let them wash over you. It’s a great time before Advent to read the poetry of Isaiah and reflect on who God…

We continue with Isaiah chapters 40-55. Read these chapters and let them wash over you. It’s a great time before Advent to read the poetry of Isaiah and reflect on who God is, how he acts, and what He’s doing in the world today. We highlight key themes that you can listen for as you…

Isaiah chapters 40-55 are powerful testaments to God’s plans for His people. It’s a great time before Advent to read the poetry of Isaiah and reflect on who God is, how he acts, and what He’s doing in the world today. This poem opens, at chapter 40, with “Comfort, comfort my people…Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,…

The Three Good Things exercise improves your optimism and outlook after only one week. An optimistic outlook helps you in all areas of life. The Three Good Things exercise takes a few minutes around the end of your day. Martin Seligmann developed this exercise and tested it with many people. We tell you what to…

Pope Leo’s Dilexi Te calls for a renewed orientation to serve and assist the poor and address poverty in all its many faces and circumstances. The early Christians addressed the needs of the poor in dramatic ways as they transformed the Roman empire and the culture of the world. That could inspire us to think…

Yes, more thought traps, please.  Yes, we have lots more. Hooray. Listen and spot your favorite one to work on this week. These traps derail us or leave us spinning our wheels.  We discuss and share examples of some of them, like Personalizing, Blaming, Unfair Comparisons, Regret Orientation, What IFs, Emotional Reasoning, Inability to Disconfirm,…

Humans (like you for instance) have some habits of thinking that are traps. We all fall into them, repeatedly. You have to laugh! These traps can shut down our thinking before we realize it, leaving us stuck or making poor choices because the traps often work at an unconscious level. Asking great questions is the…

What comes out of your mouth comes OUT OF your heart. It’s a window into your heart. And what you focus on & the way you interpret it powerfully conditions what goes INTO your heart. We talk about SHIFTING your focus to transform your heart for the better! 

Let’s chat a little bit about awareness. Try listening to yourself. We are necessarily using a lot of assumptions about what’s happening around us. The world is complex and we need to simplify it so we can act. That’s fine. Yet leaving our assumptions unchallenged creates blind spots. Like a map that’s not accurate, we…