Category: spiritual growth

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Our Struggle With Prayer – How to Overcome

I struggle to maintain a strong and vital prayer life. It is easy for my prayers to become stagnant and in danger of eroding to the point of nonexistence! How about you? We know we need to pray. How do we do it? Photo Credit: travis.russi Flickr via Compfight cc Isaiah pointed out the same…
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December 8, 2017 2

5 Questions to Measure Your Spiritual Progress

Photo Credit: ideacanal Flickr via Compfight cc “It’s time for a pop quiz.” What student loves to hear these words? When I was in school, and only on rare occasions, the teacher would allow us to grade our own quiz. Now, that was good! But tests help us measure our progress – even if we…
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December 1, 2017 0

Strategies to Thrive in Difficult Circumstances

Photo Credit: travelyahootw Flickr via Compfight cc This was a day like no other. I was devastated by the news. It was personal and professional failure. The news meant that I would continue in the same circumstances with daily reminders of my failure. That day has continued to haunt me and has become a ‘what…
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November 28, 2017 0

16 Strategies to Deal with Failure

Photo Credit: Michele Mondini Flickr via Compfight cc I woke up one day and felt like my efforts had utterly failed. My plans and hard work had not born the expected fruit and I had no back up strategy. I didn’t know what to do next and feared that whatever it was, it was doomed…
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November 21, 2017 0