119 – The Great Adventure: It Will Seem Impossible!

The Great Adventure Feels Impossible

Great Adventures involve the impossible — otherwise it wouldn’t be a great adventure. Trusting God for the impossible stretches us to new levels and intensifies our trust in God. We cannot let the things that seem impossible to us keep us from trusting God in our disciplined pursuit of his adventure for our lives. In this episode of Calibrate Life, we continue to discuss things we’ve learned on our great adventure and the necessity to embrace the impossible.

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113 – Learning the Unforced Rhythms of Grace

You are not the only one who often feels overwhelmed, it goes with the calling to Spiritual Leadership. I’m not sure the overwhelming feeling toward an impossible and undoable task ever goes away, but the rest comes in trusting God to accomplish through us what we could never accomplish without his help. 

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106 – I Have Decided… All In

I have decidedUntil we have decided what we really do believe and live life “as if” we believe it, we will not make great progress toward our great adventure or the life we really want to live. Sooner or later we have to decide what we believe to be the truth and anchor in it. In this article and episode of Calibrate Life, we discuss being “all in” with the ways we choose to invest our lives.

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103 – Discovering the Unanticipated Consequences of Your Mission

Unintended Consequences of Our MissionSomeday, at the end of your journey, you will look back at the mission you passionately pursued, and you will realize there were a lot of unanticipated consequences. In this episode we discuss some things we are learning about how we all can better position ourselves to live and lead in such a way as to give room for the unanticipated consequences of pursuing our mission. 

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A Family Christmas Communion Guide

Family Christmas Communion Guide

One of the Christmas traditions of our family is sharing family communion together on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. I prepared this guide, at the request of my daughter Kelly, who is now the lead pastor of a church, and who has a desire to encourage the people of her church in this tradition. We hope this guide will assist those desiring to share the Lord’s Supper with their families, but may not know how to approach it. This is simply the way we’ve done it. (more…)

098 – Lessons from an Unanswered Prayer

Lesson From an Unanswered Prayer

Part of our story is about having our confidence shaken that God would answer our specific prayers. We had to rebuild the way we viewed prayer. Will God answer our important prayers, and how do we know we are praying the right things? In this episode of the Calibrate Life Podcast, we talk about “Lessons from an Unanswered Prayer.”

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