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Where you lead, I will follow
When the signs of the times are confusing and I don’t know which way to go – where you lead, I will follow. When the clouds of my tears...
Jeff Chacon
Jul 7, 20202 min read
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Are you looking through the wrong end of the telescope?
Telescopes help us see objects more clearly. But if you look through the wrong end of the telescope, it does just the opposite: instead...
Jeff Chacon
Jul 2, 20203 min read
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Friends
Some people know you, but don’t love you. That makes us feel rejected – or at least ignored. Others love you, but don’t really know you....
Jeff Chacon
Jun 30, 20203 min read
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Shaking and Testing, by Ron Conkling
So much has happened in 2020, and with each impact a question that I hear over and over again is, “What is God doing?” I think the short...
Jeff Chacon
Jun 26, 20203 min read
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Are you a safe place?
One of the greatest needs of the human heart is for safety. An unsafe relationship can never be a loving relationship – because we cannot...
Jeff Chacon
Jun 22, 20204 min read
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“What do you expect me to do?! I’m not Jesus!”
These days – perhaps more than ever – it’s so important to be like Jesus in our communication. Let me tell you a story… About five years...
Jeff Chacon
Jun 15, 20203 min read
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A call to fast and pray
“We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” (2 Chronicles 20:12b) Dear Brothers and Sisters, These are difficult times for all...
Jeff Chacon
Jun 11, 20206 min read
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Beware the trap of binary thinking
There’s a long overdue nationwide awakening to social injustices for a large segment of our country and it affects many of our dear...
Jeff Chacon
Jun 10, 20204 min read
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We Shall Overcome
Sometimes the heaviness of it all is overwhelming. New York Times author Michelle Goldberg noted that 2020 started off like 1974 (an...
Jeff Chacon
Jun 4, 20204 min read
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Letter to the church from Jeff and Ron
Dear brothers and sisters, Our hearts are broken, and we fall to our knees in prayer as we cry out to God about all that has gone on over...
Jeff Chacon
Jun 1, 20203 min read
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Not again... processing yet another injustice (Guest blog by Lenz Daniel)
Note from Jeff: America is once again filled with racial tension today in the aftermath of yet another apparent case of police brutality...
Jeff Chacon
May 28, 20205 min read
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The Story of Our Lives
“Life, for most of us, feels like a movie we’ve arrived to forty minutes late. Sure, good things happen, sometimes beautiful things. But...
Jeff Chacon
May 25, 20204 min read
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I finally had to confess and ask for prayers
I kept thinking I could just repent and try again. But every day I kept falling. And every night I kept asking God for forgiveness and...
Jeff Chacon
May 22, 20202 min read
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Have you ever thought of God as… beautiful?
The inspired poet, David, did… “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the...
Jeff Chacon
May 18, 20203 min read
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I See You
One of the worst feelings in the world is to feel that you are invisible. The feeling that others don’t see, know or care about what...
Jeff Chacon
May 12, 20203 min read
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Care, but don't carry
How do we care – but not carry the weight of the world on our shoulders? How do we feel the pressure of our concern for others – without...
Jeff Chacon
May 11, 20202 min read
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Why do I get so down on myself sometimes? (Part Two)
In part one of this blog post, we identified one of the spiritual pandemics of the modern age as “self-loathing” – that nagging feeling...
Jeff Chacon
May 7, 20206 min read
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Why do I get so down on myself sometimes?
Why does it bother me sometimes when she looks so happy in her Instagram photos? Why does my heart sink when I get up and look in the...
Jeff Chacon
May 4, 20206 min read
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What's God Teaching You Right Now?
I’ve learned to ask myself that question regularly. Sometimes the answer comes to me quickly – like the voice of Jesus speaking directly...
Jeff Chacon
Apr 30, 20203 min read
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I Know What I Want
That’s what happens as you get older―you begin to eliminate options. The more mistakes you make, the more options you begin to...
Jeff Chacon
Apr 27, 20202 min read
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