I have had at least three significant spiritual fathers in my life.
Sam Gilpin was the first who led me to the Lord and took me through the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. This taught me deep things about transparency, surrender and restitution. This started me on a path to healing.
Pastor Steve McCoy was the second. […]

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“Why do I always have to be the mature one for the ‘fathers’ in my life?” This is something I said many times years ago. I felt like God had never really given me any spiritual fathers. I felt like I was left to work out my problems on my own and that there was […]

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There was a time in my Christian experience where I felt I needed to work hard for God, to really “pay a price” if He was ever going to use me. I would try to fast almost every single day. Most days I would end up getting and eating a whole box of Cap’n Crunch […]

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In Spanish people say, “Nadie reconoce sus errores” (no one recognizes their own errors). There was a time I felt a person who was close to me had really wronged me. We maintained a cordial relationship but you could always feel a wall between us. Of course I could lay out for you all the […]

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Trusting in the Father’s Love to Surrender
In my independence I ran from the Lord, I felt uncomfortable anywhere near a church; it confronted my lifestyle too directly. I was “in control” self-medicating with drugs and alcohol.
Our independence, I believe, is at the heart of our sin nature- my will, me being in control, to take […]

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             In the beginning of every year, I (Cyndi) take the first month to seek the Lord for a word for the coming year—to prepare for what the year has in store. This January I heard the word “change”. I thought, “Okay, this is going to be an interesting, possibly challenging year ahead.”              In […]

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Father’s Love Motivation 
There is in God a love motivation for the preaching of the Gospel and Christian living that supersedes everything else. We live in a fear-based world that seeks to use control to diminish its insecurities. So often this has colored our Christianity. Galatians 1:1 says, Paul was sent out not of man—not of his […]

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Seeking God in Father’s Love
  Isaiah 66:1, 2 Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? Vs.2 For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist,” Says the Lord. […]

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