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Tag Archives: reputation
Lay Down Your Kingdom: a small-group session
For this session, you’ll need…. enough name tags for everyone pens/markers for writing Laying Down Your Day (15 minutes) Make sure everyone has a name tag and something to write with. Then say something like: Think of something you’re especially … Continue reading
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Lay Down Your Reputation
Anything we’ve done apart from God is . . . apart from God. Continue reading
Lay Down Your Reputation
Recently, I’d been walking around a wildlife area of Colorado, where informative plaques abounded. One plaque in particular caught my eye, highlighting the families who’d formerly owned ranches in this area in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. It got me thinking … Continue reading
You Can Have More of God… If You Want Him
It was this time last year that I first discovered R.T. Kendall, and I’ve dove in since. This book, pulled from Kendall’s final sermons at Westminster Chapel more than a decade ago, isn’t as immediately compelling as last year’s Unashamed … Continue reading
Lay Down Your Kingdom: a small-group session
To work through this session, it may help read through the devotionals that go with this study, especially the “Lay It Town Today” pieces. You can find them in bits and pieces under the following names: Lay Down Your Independence … Continue reading
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Lay Down Your Reputation, part 2
In the first part of this meditation/devotional (found here), we looked at the reputations we try to keep, and how we tend to use them as a way to rely on the love of others rather than the love of … Continue reading
Lay Down Your Reputation: a fragment
I was recently hanging out in a wildlife area of Colorado, where informative plaques abounded. One in particular caught my eye, highlighting families who’d owned ranches where this area now stood, in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. It got me … Continue reading