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Dr. Spann discusses the critical importance of margin in our lives as we keep our eyes focused on the objective: "Knowing Christ in our own lives in ever-increasing depth and making disciples and developing laborers at all times, under any conditions, in every place I go."

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Dr. Spann shares more insights from his devotional booklets "Goads and Nails." Today we discuss the change in evangelism styles over the years and how Jesus spent time with individuals. Dr. Spann mentions the book "Your Home a Lighthouse: How to Host an Evangelistic Bible Study" by Bill Jacks. This is no longer being printed but used copies are available on eBay and Amazon. 

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Do you sometimes listen to voices that tell you that you are not worthy, that you do not measure up, that God doesn't really love you? Who am I, really? Am I what the world, the flesh and the devil say I am? Or am I who GOD says I am in His word? 

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What is the "one thing" that is most important to focus on in life? What are the Biblical role models we might look at? Dr. Richard Spann shares another key point from his devotional series Goads and Nails.

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It is all too tempting to want to make a big "splash," attracting large crowds, etc. But what does the Lord desire for us? Richard Spann, former ministry director for the Kansas Communities Ministry with the Navigators shares some insight into this topic as he relates the importance of spiritual generations and multiplication -- all based on making a "ripple" and not necessarily a "splash."

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Dr. Spann shares three practical truths: Discipleship is more caught than taught. We can impress from a distance but to make an impact we need to be "up close." Live your life in such a way that you leave a mark and not just a blur.

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Who was Shamgar? Often we don't think we have anything to offer concerning investing in the spiritual growth of others. But we learn from the story of Shamgar in the Old Testament, we can start where we are, with what we have, doing what we can.

This is a profound truth that will encourage you in your ministry.

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The questions of Jesus in scripture -- who do you say that I am? What do you want? -- He asked of his disciples and asks of His followers today. Only through intimately knowing God by spending time with Him and His Word can we learn to trust Him more and can we experience more of His joy. Richard Spann shares the second of a series of principles inherited by the Kansas Navigators and compiled in his devotional books "Goads and Nails."

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Dr. Richard Spann is the previous director of the Kansas Communities Ministry with the Navigators. He has written a series of devotionals called "Goads and Nails" which are a collection of timeless truths the Kansas Communities Ministry has been privileged to have been taught over the years.

Today he shares some important truths about prayer, the need for prayer, the challenge of prayer, the fact that prayer IS the ministry and that we should talk to God about men and women as much or more than we talk to men and women about God.

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Mr. Willie Penner is a faithful man of God. During his early years he lived in Poland. Eventually, in 1945, he and his family were displaced from their home. He lived for a time in a concentration camp and subsequently was forced to return to his home as a young boy to work as slave labor. God was teaching Willie many things through these experiences.

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