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Dan B. Allender _ Sabbath
Joy must be chosen, but the deeper conundrum is that it can't be controlled or cajoled as to when it will come or how long it will stay.
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Dan B. Allender _ Sabbath
The Sabbath is not a vacation; it is a grateful celebration. Who are you celebrating? To whom do you owe your life, your current taste of re-creation? Who marked you with kindness that has enabled you to offer care in return? Who has scarred you with heartache that has enabled you to enter the wounds of others with grace? We are called to bless those who love us and those who love to do us harm.
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Dan B. Allender _ The Wounded Heart: Hope for
Self-doubt is common when our efforts fail to bring results. Failure is a rock in our shoe that nags us until we find relief. At first, failure to achieve our desired end will elicit careful scrutiny {What can I do better?} and resumed commitment {How can I try harder?}. Success may be achieved-straight As, an athletic scholarship, perfect Sunday school attendance-but the real goal-a happy family, an end to the abuse, or relief from the pain-is always out of reach.
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Dan B. Allender _ Leading with a Limp: Take Full
Paul calls leaders not merely to be humble and self-effacing but to be desperate and honest. It is not enough to be self-revealing, authentic, and transparent. Our calling goes far beyond that. We are called to be reluctant, limping, chief-sinner leaders, and even more, to be stories. The word that Paul uses is that a leader is to be an "example," but what that implies is more than a figure on a flannel board. He calls us to be a living portrayal of the very gospel we beseech others to believe. And that requires a leader to see himself as being equally prone to deceive as he is to tell the truth, to manipulate as he is to bless, to cower as he is to be bold. A leader is both a hero and a fool, a saint and a felon.
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Dan B. Allender _ Bold Love
Lust almost always becomes perverse.
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Dan B. Allender _ Leading with a Limp: Take Full
Anyone who wrestles with an uncertain future on behalf of others-anyone who uses her gifts, talents, and skills to influence the direction of others for the greater good-is a leader. No one is a mere follower. If you are a follower of God, for instance, then you are called to lead. Every believer is called to help someone grow into maturity-and such is the core calling of a leader.
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Dan B. Allender _ The Wounded Heart: Hope for
in our perceived source of life. It is recognizing that our self-protective means to avoiding hurt have not ushered us into real living {the reckless abandon to God that ultimately leads to a deep sense of wholeness and joy} or to purposeful, powerful relating. Repentance is the process of deeply acknowledging the supreme call to love, which is violated at every moment, in every relationship-a law that applies even to those who have been heinously victimized. The law of love removes excuses. The pain of past abuse does not justify unloving self-protection in the present.
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Dan B. Allender _ Breaking the Idols of Your
When life is hard, pleasure can be more than a diversion. It can easily become a need. We easily move from a properly moderate enjoyment of sensuous experience to a consuming desire for it.
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Dan B. Allender _ Intimate Allies
Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to be what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.
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Dan B. Allender _ Leading with a Limp: Take Full
We live in a culture where the acknowledgment of wrong or the ownership of risk and failure is paramount to forfeiting the game.
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Dan B. Allender _ To Be Told: Know Your Story,
Shalom is shattered by sin, by the intrusion of a lie, a distortion of the truth that mars the pleasure of being naked, transparent, trusting and true.... shattering occurs when our dignity os assaulted and death enters to divide and destroy.
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Dan B. Allender _ To Be Told: Know Your Story,
{from chapter 3, "What Makes A Good Story?"}"Our willingness to hold dear the moments of past shalom prepares us to imagine a new and better day, and, even more to move toward that day with passion and purpose."
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