Sharpening Iron

"The world is a book, and those who never travel have only read one page." Augustine. Welcome to my universe of random thought and study. Wander freely at your own risk... Bill Vanderbush "wilvan"

Monday, January 29, 2018

Agape

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If you dare to squint the eyes of your heart to see the good in people, you may get blinded by the twisted, the broken, the parched, the fra...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Hard Lessons

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Hard lessons from 26 years of marriage that I want my kids to know. (1 minute 26 seconds of read time)  You're going to do some thing...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Life in Austin, Texas Was Like...Nicky the Stranger

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(I never want to forget what it was like to live in the weirdest city in America. Austin will always be a home to me. This was in 2014.) A...
Friday, July 14, 2017

A New Covenant Clarity

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Everything from the Old Covenant needs to be interpreted through the New Covenant. In the New Covenant we have 1 Corinthians 13 (Love keeps ...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Busyness

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"Busyness is artificial significance." Bill Johnson. Busyness isn't the cure for laziness. To me, laziness isn't a lack ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Why I Believe

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I believe in God because of Jesus. I believe in Jesus because of the resurrection. And I believe in the resurrection because of the discipl...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Interwoven in Christ

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Col 2:2-3 Paul’s outlining the priorities for what he wants to see in every believer and every church here in this verse and it’s staggeri...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Deep Lessons

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We learn some of the deepest lessons in some of the darkest valleys. But we don't often realize what we've learned in the valley of ...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

What Pain Sounds Like

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The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit! But for many their experience with Christianity as a religion is not...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

What's the Point of Prayer and Fasting?

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Disciplines like prayer and fasting don't make God. They make me. There's no arm twisting or begging of God in these things. They...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

God and Sin

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Anything that dulls my sensitivity to or awareness of the presence of God or perpetuates the illusion of separation. But what if someone doe...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Is God Disappointed In You?

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God is not disappointed in you. That's a statement I've made often in talking about The Forgotten Way. So a question I get ...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Stillness

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Nothing in this life is both easier or more difficult than stillness. 
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Identity Defined

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There is no distance or separation between you and God right now. All distance exists in our mind and perspective and those thoughts and si...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

The Hidden Goodness of God

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The Hidden Goodness of God “The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” You know it’s a really good thing that it was Jesus who said thi...
Tuesday, August 04, 2015

A question to meditate on.

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"Does your Father not love you the way He asks you to love others?" Ted Dekker.
Saturday, August 01, 2015

Rediscovering

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The sun settles into the pocket of cloud at the edge of the horizon, ultraviolet beams bust through holes worn into the clouds by the wind c...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Suffering and Expectations

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As much as we walk in victory, though saved, in this life there is still suffering.  Jesus, though a son, learned obedience through that ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Lifted from the dust

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God's faith in you is unshakable. He's believed in you from before the foundation of the world. Don't give up on you. God hasn...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Resting Reconciled

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Being made in His likeness, we awaken to our authentic identity in Him. He decimates our man made, circumstance fashioned, false identities ...
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