Author archive: Stephen Woodrow

Christian Life
Developing Healthy Circles of Friendship
October 17, 2011
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Are you developing healthy circles of friendship or are you being conformed to just a  network of fragmented friendships.    The scripture says that the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.  One of his evil tactics is to fragment our relationships and keep us busy and attempting to manage a growing linear stream of relationships.  […]
Church Theology
World-view or Kingdom-view
October 3, 2011
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Are there any just natural causes?  Well, you might say, “Sure there are natural causes,  like when the leaves change color every Fall or like when a cold makes you sick.”  But are these “just” natural causes or are there supernatural causes behind them?  If we live in “just” a natural world like many in […]
Christian Life Church
Fighting for Unity
September 14, 2011
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Unity is required for growing healthy relationships.  Unity flows from the very essence of God.  The only way we can make sense of the universal desire for unity and the only way we ultimately can attain unity is by having a unified relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  God exists in perfect unity; […]
Christian Life Devotional Inspiration
Family, Friends, Roadtrips & Surfing
August 17, 2011
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This is post 9 of 9 on Awakening to Authentic Community Our family, all seven of us, recently loaded up into our Suburban and headed west to California for some beach time and surfing.  This is becoming a wonderful annual event for us.  This year we invited a few other families to join us on this […]
Christian Life Church Leadership
The Discipline of Discipleship
August 5, 2011
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This is post 8 of 12 on Awakening to Authentic Community In the New Testament the word used for discipleship is the same as used for discipline.  So, if we say we are a follower or disciple of Jesus we are expected to live a disciplined life.  Take some time to think about what Henri […]
Christian Life Church
The Key to Community – Developing a King & Kingdom Mindset
July 29, 2011
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This is post 7 of 12 on Awakening to Authentic Community Too often our times of stillness before God devolve into self-centered intercession and personal kingdom building.  When this takes place we are not properly strengthened to engage the world but instead we are overcome by the world.  What is needed today desperately is an […]
Christian Life Church
The Relationship Between Time Alone and Time Together
July 20, 2011
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This is post 6 of 12 on Awakening to Authentic Community Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his book Life Together makes this comment about the intimate connection between time alone and time together: “We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be alone, and only he that is alone can live in […]
General
Reforming or Deforming?
July 15, 2011
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This post is Part 5 of 12 of Awakening to Authentic Community We are either re-forming or de-forming.  We are either conforming to the world or being transformed into Christ’s likeness.  There is no neutral status.  We are either blindly conforming to the kingdom of darkness or we are growing in clarity of the kingdom […]
Christian Life Church
Awakening to Authentic Community (Part 4 of 12)
July 1, 2011
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This is a 12 part summer blog series on Authentic Community.  I hope you will read along and make some comments.  Two books that I would recommend are: Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Making Room for Life by Randy Frazee. An Aspen grove is one of the largest living organisms.  They grow in large […]
Christian Life Church
Awakening to Authentic Community (Part 3 of 12)
June 24, 2011
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This is a 12 part summer blog series on Authentic Community.  I hope you will read along and make some comments.  Two books that I would recommend are: Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Making Room for Life by Randy Frazee. An Aspen grove is one of the largest living organisms.  They grow in large […]