Tag: brokenness

• The Shepherd and the Sheep: Restore My Soul

  My family and I will be at Family Camp this weekend, so I am reposting for this week.  Next week, I will be posting  something I wrote for 9/11 last year.  Please have a safe and sober Labor Day weekend. Oh Lord you call my name Like a shepherd in a field. You use your…

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  September 2, 2011

  Spiritual Transformation

  brokenness, Christianity, green, humility, Meeting God, mercy, Provision, Relying on God, Restoration, shepherd, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality and the natural world

• Read the Directions: Do Not Over Inflate

  If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.  Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but…

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  July 23, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Spiritual Transformation

  brokenness, Christianity, Devotions, Emptiness, Excellence, healing, humility, Inspiration, Love, Relying on God, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth

• Read the Directions: Please Wash Your Hands

  Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Savior. – Psalms…

  cdyeagerwrites

  July 5, 2011

  Spiritual Transformation

  brokenness, Christianity, Community, forgiveness, Holiness, Relying on God, Restoration, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth

• The Shepherd and the Sheep: David’s Reality Check

  The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised…

  cdyeagerwrites

  May 6, 2011

  Spiritual Transformation

  brokenness, Devotions, humility, mercy, Relying on God, shepherd, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality and the natural world

• The Shepherd and the Sheep: Stray Sheep

  I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands. – Psalms 119:176 (NIV) I have been lost before; lost in such a way that I had no hope of finding my way to safety on my own.  Only the effort of someone else seeking me out and…

  cdyeagerwrites

  April 15, 2011

  Spiritual Transformation

  brokenness, Community, Devotions, fatherhood, Provision, Relying on God, shepherd, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Wisdom

• The Shepherd and the Sheep: Introduction

  A psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. – Psalm 23:1-3 The scriptures are occupied by numerous shepherds.  From Abel, the favored…

  cdyeagerwrites

  April 7, 2011

  Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, brokenness, Devotions, fatherhood, humility, Meeting God, presence, Provision, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality and the natural world

• Reconciliation: There Are No Untouchables

  When he came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cured of his leprosy. …

  cdyeagerwrites

  February 14, 2011

  American Society and Culture, Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, brokenness, Christianity, Faith, Holiness, humility, Love, Reconciliation, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth

• Hammer and Nail: A Poem

  While it is the Christmas season, it is also cold and flu season; we are celebrating both in the Yeager home.  This has caused some delays in posting a new blog entry, and I apologize.  I hope that you will forgive me re-posting an entry that I initially posted during the Easter season, but certainly…

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  December 21, 2010

  Spiritual Transformation

  brokenness, Christianity, Faith, Inspiration, Love, Meeting God, Spiritual discipline, trees

• Handling Brokenness Part 3: Plank-sightedness

  “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?  You hypocrite, first…

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  September 1, 2010

  Spiritual Transformation

  brokenness, Excellence, Faith, humility, Patience, Spiritual discipline, Spiritual Growth, Wisdom

• Handling Brokenness Part 2: Whitewashed Tombs

  “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full…

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  August 21, 2010

  Spiritual Transformation

  blessing, brokenness, Christianity, Devotions, Faith, fatherhood, healing, Holiness, Relying on God, Spiritual Growth, Wisdom