by Kurtis Vanderpool | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog, Free To Love
I wanted more. I wanted more than just the average Sunday morning, church-going faith. I wanted more than the paltry prayers offered as an afterthought before my first bite…second bite of mashed potatoes. I wanted more than a faith that...
by Kurtis Vanderpool | Oct 27, 2020 | Blog
Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? How can I illustrate it? It is like a tiny mustard seed that a man planted in a garden; it grows and becomes a tree, and the birds make nests in its branches.” He also asked, “What else is the Kingdom of God like? It is...
by Kurtis Vanderpool | Sep 17, 2020 | Blog
We make such a big deal of our spiritual lives. In part, we do so because it is a big deal. There are few things more important to each individual than his/her own sense of self, and their connection to the world around them. We long to...
by Kurtis Vanderpool | Sep 15, 2020 | Blog, Relationships, Self Care, Self Love
Relationships are really not that difficult. They are complex. There are a lot of convoluted twists and turns. Tricky backroads of learning to understand and serve another human being. Relationships are complex because people are. People contain galaxies...
by Kurtis Vanderpool | May 12, 2020 | Blog, Hearing God, Practice
Prayer is far more complex than three simple steps, but it can also be so confusing and intangible that most of us need some structure to really get going. As we discussed in previous articles, prayer begins with Authentically Crying Out to God and moves to...
by Kurtis Vanderpool | Apr 28, 2020 | Blog
The second step in a life of prayer, once you have begun practicing the scary art of Authenticity and Crying Out to God, Is to begin seeing life as a conversation with God. I remember as a young, zealous christian, I had a youth...
