Author archive: Stephen Woodrow

Devotional Leadership Missional
Stay Dusty!
October 21, 2013
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An ancient Rabbi was noted as saying, “we learn with our feet…and that we should stay in the dust of the Rabbi.”  Meshell and I recently returned from a two week study tour of Israel.  It was an amazing time of seeing and learning as we followed the Rabbi (Ray Vander Laan, of That The […]
Christian Life Devotional Inspiration
Break Through Prayer
September 11, 2013
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Do you struggle getting through to God in your prayer time?  I believe that most of us struggle with our prayer life because we have not been taught how to pray break through prayer.  So, what is break through prayer?  In Ephesians 1:15-19 Paul gives us an example of break through prayer and again in […]
Christian Life Church
Where Are The Hungry Souls?
August 7, 2013
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Where are the truly hungry people today?  Where are the people today who are concerned more for their souls than their comforts?  Where are the people today who want to follow Jesus in discipleship at all costs? As I write this I am wholly dissatisfied with my own soul hunger for God.  I am longing […]
Christian Life Devotional Inspiration
Living Without Wasting Your Life
June 21, 2013
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What is your approach to life?  Do you see it as an indescribable gift with a clear purpose to live out or do you see it as something that just happens so make the best of it? I have been meditating upon Psalm 68:28 recently.  “Summon your might, O God.  Display your power, O God, […]
Christian Life Devotional Inspiration
Keep the Fire in the Fireplace
May 28, 2013
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Have you ever thought about how you are investing in romance?  Where have you been looking for guidance about sex and romance?  Statistics reveal that most people even those who regularly attend church are not looking to the Church or to God’s Word for guidance about sex and romance.  The spirit of Eros has taken […]
Christian Life Church
Engage Don’t Isolate
April 29, 2013
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Do you ever feel like you are on the run relationally?  Do you ever feel like there is no one who can understand you so you start subtly pulling away from people and community?  One of the main indicators that we are not doing well is if we start to pull away from people and […]
Christian Life Inspiration Missional
SPIRITUAL MOMENTUM – Do you have it?
April 5, 2013
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Do you feel stagnate in your relationship with God?  Does your involvement with church feel institutional or feel like an exciting movement?  We all wrestle at different times in our spiritual walk with feeling stagnate.  Following Jesus is never to be stagnate or boring.  It is to be vibrant, alive and abundant.  Church is never […]
Christian Life Church Leadership
Lessons from the Tour (2013)
March 18, 2013
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Well, we are 4 weeks into our local tour here in Aspen while our new facility is being built so I thought I would write down a few lessons I am learning along the way.  We kicked off our local tour by holding Sunday church at the Aspen District Theater then on to Harris Hall […]
Church Leadership Theology
Always Reforming
March 2, 2013
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What is the main catalyst for change in your life?  The reality is that we are all changing but we might just not be aware of it.  Life is never just neutral.  We are always changing.  So, how are we changing and what are we becoming?  Have you ever taken some time to think about […]
Church Missional
Facing Today’s X-Culture
January 26, 2013
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As I start to write this blog, I can see the sky outside my window here in Aspen CO. lit up by the lights of the 2013 ESPN Winter X-Games.  As I watched the opening days events something that the young edgy announcers said caught my attention.  They described the X-Games as a global youth […]