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A Personal Retreat for Christians
This guide is for Christians who would like to take a personal retreat with God. This is specific to Christians and not retreats in general because Christian retreats are different. Other faiths seek to contact something that is not Jesus Christ. Secular retreats are concerned with psychological self-help. The Christian retreat is based first on hearing God’s word in the Bible and through His Holy Spirit, and secondarily with good physical and psychological practices. (Mind you these are good things; they are just not the most important things.) It can be hard to get that kind of time. But you need to ask yourself – What does God want me…
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How Christian Surrender Means Victory
We don’t like patience and surrender! Why? Because the heart of sin, the heart of the fall is that we want our own way. This is the essence of all of our struggles against God and against each other. We are angry and scared about giving up our way, what we think is best for us, what we want. Rationalize it as you want, Christian surrender is not something that we usually want to do. In our younger years, we have to have this one guy even though he’s not a Christian. Or he’s married. We want to go to this college. We want to have this career. Maybe we…
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Dissertation Proposal for Blueridge Ranch Retreats
I finished my Doctor of Ministry dissertation proposal on founding Blueridge Ranch with much fear and trembling. One of the things I like so much about Biblical Life College & Seminary (BLCS) is the doctoral programs’ freedom and flexibility — and one of the things that makes me nervous is the doctoral programs’ freedom and flexibility! I hope to hear by the beginning of next week if they have accepted the proposal, which outlines the founding of Blueridge Ranch Retreats. I will keep you all posted. In the meantime, I am aware that I must resist the temptation to be so focused on the dissertation that I forget to focus…