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When Grief Bleeds {A Life Overseas}
Today Jonathan is pondering grief over at A Life Overseas. . . Grief is a powerful thing, echoing on and on through the chambers of a heart. Loss singes the soul, and death does indeed bite. We are not...
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Before You Cry “Demon!” {A Life Overseas}
Jonathan is over at A Life Overseas today, taking on the tricky topic of spiritual warfare. I believe the enemy is real. I believe he still seeks to kill and destroy. He still deceives. He still lies....
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Worthless {A Life Overseas}
Jonathan is over at A Life Overseas today, talking about his feelings of worthlessness and the hope that carries him through. I feel worthless. The feeling rises and crests like an impending wave...
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Foundational Ideas for Merging CPM Principles with Emotional Healing
This document was developed for CPM (church planting movement) practitioners in Cambodia. It is my great hope that this article, when combined with Adding What’s Missing, will encourage and enable...
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Adding What’s Missing: Merging CPM Principles with Emotional Healing
Read part 1 here: Foundational Ideas for Merging CPM Principles with Emotional Healing For the past six months or so, I’ve been feeling like there was something missing. I’ve had this inkling that it...
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margin: the wasted space we desperately need {A Life Overseas}
Jonathan is over at A Life Overseas today, talking about margin. . . “Staying alive is not about how fast or how slow you go; it’s about how much margin you have.” That’s what a friend of mine here in...
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How to Communicate So People Will Care {A Life Overseas}
Jonathan is over at A Life Overseas today, sharing his perspective on what creates effective communication back to senders and supporters. Newsletters. Prayer updates. Itinerations. Reports. Furloughs....
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That Lane is Your Lane, This Lane is My Lane
To the tune of This Land is My Land, sort of. Lyrics: That lane is your lane This lane is my lane Does it really matter You have the right of way You have a big car I’m so much less than You flashed...
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Women Are Scary (and other lessons modesty culture teaches men)
by Jonathan I am sad. I live in Southeast Asia, and there’s a “massage parlor” a few blocks down the street. In fact, there are several. “$2.50” is what the sign reads. And then there are the KTVs...
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Failing at Fatherhood {A Life Overseas}
Jonathan is over at A Life Overseas today, talking about how moving abroad ruined his parenting. I sat on the floor, weeping. I was two whole days into living abroad, and I was already losing it. Those...
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What is a Woman Worth?
This post was originally written for and published in The Light Times Magazine, with Khmer translation done by the magazine editors. — Jonathan All over our world today, women are treated like trash....
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Church Planting Movements and Inner Healing
For more discussion on this topic, check out Adding What’s Missing: Merging CPM Principles with Emotional Healing. For more background, check out Foundational Ideas for Merging CPM Principles with...
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Navigating the Night — 3 things to do when you have no idea what to do {A...
by Jonathan If you find yourself in the dark today, not sure of what to do or where to go, I’d like to give you three pinpoints of light. Three true stars by which to navigate the night. On whatever...
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The Psalms: More than Just a Matt Redman Lyric
Do you like roller coasters? The slow climb up to the top, then the controlled crash down? Some people love ‘em, some people throw up. How about emotional roller coasters? Ever been on one of those?...
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To the ones who think they’ve failed {A Life Overseas}
Jonathan’s over at A Life Overseas today… So, you failed to save the world. You failed to complete the task of global evangelism. You failed to see massive geopolitical change in your region. You...
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A Christmas letter to parents, from a kid who doesn’t have any
by Jonathan | Your kids aren’t going to remember what you get them for Christmas. They’re just not. At least I don’t. My mother died when I was a teen, my dad when I was in my early twenties. And when...
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Why Are We Here? {A Life Overseas}
Jonathan’s over at A Life Overseas today… Why are we here? Why have we chosen lives that cause us to engage suffering in very raw ways? Visible ways? Why do we expose our hearts to people in pain? Why...
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I was fifteen once
by Jonathan I was fifteen once, in 1996. In 1996, Bill Clinton was president of the United States, the Olympics happened in Atlanta, Tupac died, Apple Computer purchased NeXT Computers from Steve Jobs,...
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A Letter to Singles {Velvet Ashes}
Jonathan’s over at Velvet Ashes today, with a letter to single ladies serving abroad… You are loved. Cherished, even. Not because you were brave enough to move overseas “alone.” Not because you ignored...
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Finding a song in Psalm 13
by Jonathan This material was originally developed for a morning of reflection at Living Well, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is shared here in the hope that it might help someone find the song in their...
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