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ODJ: good ideas aren’t enough

My local church is always looking for ways to reach the young people in our community. Some of the ways we’ve considered have included having a toddler group for teenage mothers, hosting a barbecue for the local youth, opening up our church building as a youth drop-in centre and even helping out with a multi-church mobile youth club bus.All of these ideas sounded great at the time. We belie

ODJ: is it him?

When I began training my hunting dog, I kept him very close to me, issued only one command and made sure to enforce the command, should he not understand or obey. Each time we had success, I would give him a little more freedom and then repeat the command, making sure he received a lot of affirmation and praise for his compliance. These days I can let him loose in the woodlands and be assured that

ODJ: the crooked path

My family is planning a walking tour of Scotland. I’m eager to take the meandering paths and the side roads—to encounter parts of the Scottish Highlands that we would miss if we simply stuck with a bus tour. Some things are experienced better by taking the crooked path.In Israel’s story we see that God purposefully sent His people on a roundabout, crooked path. The journey made

ODJ: sift your dreams

The memory is vivid. My wife Merryn and I sat in emotional pain, talking. “If this really is our last chance to have a baby and it doesn’t happen,” Merryn said, “I need something else.”

How to Make Decisions That Please God [Part Two]

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Ambition, goal setting, and practical use of our time are good things, but we shouldn’t develop tunnel vision and lose sight of others in the process.

How to Make Decisions that Please God [Part One]

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We should always seek God’s will, wisdom, and guidance. Yet when He seems to be silent for the sake of letting us grow, there are some practical tips I’ve learned

Why God’s Will Isn’t Always Obvious to Us

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The biggest source of stress for many Christians is probably the will of God. Right? We feel the pressure to know His will for our lives,

ODJ: the silence of Jesus

Silence. That’s all he gave them. Silence. And some strange scribbling in the sand.
He’d been so vocal just a few moments before—sitting down, in the customary way, to teach the crowds gathered around Him in the temple. He’d spoken calmly but boldly then, passionately but enigmatically, about the kingdom of God and its arrival. Everyone had been enthralled by His word. But no

Why Did You Do That?

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Why did you do that? I’m not referring to the things we do on reflex such as cracking our neck (which I do when I’m tired), but moments in life where we need to