Author archive: Stephen Woodrow

Inspiration Missional
What is Your Message?
May 18, 2014
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Recently, I took one of our kids on a campus tour of CSU (Colorado State University).  During the tour we walked through a central open plaza where our tour guide told us that it was a “free speech zone.”  The picture included in this blog shows the big preaching stump in the plaza where our […]
Christian Life Church Theology
Knowing our History to Walk in our Inheritance
April 14, 2014
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Orphans are ignorant of their history.  They do not know where they have come from or who they are.  So, orphans run not knowing their history and not able to lay hold of their inheritance.  We are all born with an orphan spirit in search of who we are and where we are going.  God […]
Inspiration Leadership
What is the S.U.M of Your Life?
February 3, 2014
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Have you ever taken the time to sit down and take a piece of paper or your journal and write out all the main areas of your life – all the plates that you are spinning?  Let me encourage you to take some time to do this important exercise.  Once you have all the different […]
Devotional General Inspiration
Eramos Topos: First Thoughts determine First Love
December 21, 2013
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This past October Meshell and I had the opportunity to do a study tour of Israel.  It was an amazing opportunity fulfilling a lifelong dream to be able to walk where Jesus walked and dive deep into the Word of God.  During our time around the Sea of Galilee one of the places that intrigued […]
Church Leadership Theology
Politics and Heart Change
November 18, 2013
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Tomorrow is the 150thanniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. On November 19, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic two minute speech at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated […]
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 […]