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Developing Healthy Circles of Friendship

October 17, 2011

Are you developing healthy circles of friendship or are you being conformed to just a network of fragmented friendships. The scripture says that the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. One of his evil tactics is to fragment our relationships and keep us busy and attempting to manage a growing linear stream of relationships. […]

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Fighting for Unity

Stephen Woodrow

September 14, 2011

Unity is required for growing healthy relationships. Unity flows from the very essence of God. The only way we can make sense of the universal desire for unity and the only way we ultimately can attain unity is by having a unified relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God exists in perfect unity; […]

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Family, Friends, Roadtrips & Surfing

Stephen Woodrow

August 17, 2011

This is post 9 of 9 on Awakening to Authentic Community Our family, all seven of us, recently loaded up into our Suburban and headed west to California for some beach time and surfing. This is becoming a wonderful annual event for us. This year we invited a few other families to join us on this […]

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The Discipline of Discipleship

Stephen Woodrow

August 5, 2011

This is post 8 of 12 on Awakening to Authentic Community In the New Testament the word used for discipleship is the same as used for discipline. So, if we say we are a follower or disciple of Jesus we are expected to live a disciplined life. Take some time to think about what Henri […]

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The Key to Community – Developing a King & Kingdom Mindset

Stephen Woodrow

July 29, 2011

This is post 7 of 12 on Awakening to Authentic Community Too often our times of stillness before God devolve into self-centered intercession and personal kingdom building. When this takes place we are not properly strengthened to engage the world but instead we are overcome by the world. What is needed today desperately is an […]

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The Relationship Between Time Alone and Time Together

Stephen Woodrow

July 20, 2011

This is post 6 of 12 on Awakening to Authentic Community Dietrich Bonhoeffer in his book Life Together makes this comment about the intimate connection between time alone and time together: “We recognize, then, that only as we are within the fellowship can we be alone, and only he that is alone can live in […]

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Awakening to Authentic Community (Part 4 of 12)

Stephen Woodrow

July 1, 2011

This is a 12 part summer blog series on Authentic Community. I hope you will read along and make some comments. Two books that I would recommend are: Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Making Room for Life by Randy Frazee. An Aspen grove is one of the largest living organisms. They grow in large […]