Compelled

TRIGGER WARNING. This is suicide awareness month. If you were one of my followers on social media 7 years ago, you might've noticed each post started with a double-digit number. Each day the number got smaller. It was a countdown to the day I would commit suicide. Seven years ago, today would have been day 45. The irony that I was a pastor and I knew God. Yet I couldn't find the energy or a reason to keep going. Today's podcast is about changing your perception of the day from "I don't want to" to "I want to". Each day is a gift. How we approach each day, matters. Don't give up. Don't quit! you matter. 

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We only get one life on this earth. Each day is a gift. Sometimes the gift is disguised as an obstacle. That doesn't change the fact that it is still a gift. Your health, your finances, your relationships, or any other situation can still be used for good. We just have to decide to recognize the gift and do something with it.

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Embarrassed and filled with stories of failure, I am sharing them with you to hopefully inspire you. We can have times in our lives where we feel like failures or covered in shame and mistakes. Almost like a pariah, (untouchable even). It takes a moment of surrender to escape the dark clouds and discover the amazing life that is waiting for each of us. We are not the sum of our mistakes. That isn't what defines us. He calls us His sons and daughters!

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In lots of different times of life, we are faced with having to do what's needed to make it happen. For some reason we humans don't want to stand in the line that says, "do what's necessary" we want the line that says, "just wants to succeed." The easy button of life. 

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This episode of Diving Deeper is questions and answers about chapter 5 of the book Compelled. The Edge. What would it look like to break the mold for doing church? The Edge church was often compared to a bar, a night club and more than anything a comfortable place where everyone felt like family and learned about Jesus. People got fed physically and spiritually and it grew like wildfire. 

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We are going 100 MPH every day. We are missing the life we have been given. I always believed that I would live forever. I also believed that I was SUPPOSED to go as fast as possible every day and get whatever I could take. Until I figured out that was not what we are made for. It's not why we are here. You are made to notice the little things. To be part of what makes this world a better place.

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How do we take our ordinary-everyday-walking around-going to work life and make a difference? Witnessing a miracle helps. What happens when we surrender to that quiet voice? Is it scary? Absolutely! Let's dive deeper and figure it out.

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BONUS! This podcast is the content from the Sunday message broadcast from Hannibal Missouri at Compassion Church. How we do our everyday life matters. We are a city on a hill. We are the light of the world. What does that look like as we go through our everyday walking around, going to work life? Shine!

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Facing the obstacles in our life can be scary. Some might seem impossible like giants even. This episode looks at what happened when the author surrendered to God's plan. Walking away from the American lifestyle and all that comes with it. 

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Experiencing Bigfoot or experiencing Jesus will make you a more vocal and more active believer. We take a look at some of the crazy things witnessed firsthand during the hurricane recovery in the gulf coast region and talk about the results. Everyone should experience the community of disaster response people. It restores some faith in mankind. 

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