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How’s Your Soul?

By Dave Henning / January 31, 2017

How’s Your Soul? (Thomas Nelson, 2016) Judah Smith, lead pastor of City Church in Seattle, WA, recently authored How’s Your Soul? Why Everything That Matters Starts with the Inside You.  Pastor Smith observes that we tend to avoid soul-searching questions because we’d rather be superficial than vulnerable.  Consequently, deep down we feel we’re not okay.  […]

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Life’s complexities and challenges

By Dave Henning / January 30, 2017

“Life’s complexities and challenges would be far less complex and challenging if we could approach every day like Jesus did: from heaven to earth.”- Judah Smith “No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.”- John 3:13 Pastor Judah Smith concludes Chapter 10 of How’s Your Soul? with […]

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Keeping heaven on our minds

By Dave Henning / January 29, 2017

“Keeping heaven on our minds is healthy for our souls.”- Pastor Judah Smith “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”- Colossians 3:2-3 In Chapter 10 (“Heaven”) of How’s Your Soul?, Judah Smith states that […]

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Just keep walking

By Dave Henning / January 28, 2017

“Just keep walking.  Allow your soul to be directed and guided by God.  He is faithful, and he will work in you and on you for the rest of your life.”- Judah Smith “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”- Revelation 22:13 Judah Smith concludes […]

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The goal of our walk with God

By Dave Henning / January 27, 2017

“I don’t think the goal of our walk with God is that we would understand every quirk and reaction of our souls.  The goal is that we would worship and trust and be sure of the One who does understand it all.”- Judah Smith “And I am sure of this, that he who began a […]

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The point of our walk with God

By Dave Henning / January 26, 2017

“The point of our walk with God is not arriving.  The point is walking . . . being in relationship with God and experiencing life together.”- Judah Smith “Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best of the time.”- Ephesians 5:15 In Chapter 9 (“Inside Job”) of How’s […]

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God, being rich in mercy

By Dave Henning / January 25, 2017

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together in Christ.”- Ephesians 2:4-5 Judah Smith concludes Chapter 8 of How’s Your Soul? as he discusses the third and fourth emphases of Ephesians that dramatically shape the […]

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Identity reset on a soul level

By Dave Henning / January 24, 2017

“He [Nicodemus] needed to have his identity reset on a soul level by God himself.”- Judah Smith In Chapter 8 (“New You”) of How’s Your Soul?, Pastor Judah Smith identifies one of the most powerful forces in your life as self-perception.  However, often we fail to stop and analyze these self-perceptions.  In addition, we don’t […]

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When God’s enough, there’s grace enough

By Dave Henning / January 23, 2017

“When God’s enough, there’s grace enough.”- Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way “Therefore since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.”- Romans 5:1-2 “However weak we are, however poor, however little […]

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Surrendered and surrounded

By Dave Henning / January 22, 2017

“Surrendered and surrounded, we stay grounded.”- Judah Smith “But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door of effectiveness has opened to me . . .”- 1 Corinthians 16:9 Judah Smith concludes Chapter 7 of How’s Your Soul? by discussing two major elements of an effective life.  The apostle Paul outlined these […]

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An effective life

By Dave Henning / January 21, 2017

“An effective life cannot be quantified. . . . An effective life has to do with the position and condition of your soul.”- Judah Smith In Chapter 7 (“An Effective Life”) of How’s Your Soul?, Pastor Judah Smith takes issue with a common childhood question often asked by adults.  That question- “What do you want […]

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Our relationship with God- based on birth

By Dave Henning / January 20, 2017

“A calm and quiet spirit is the result of understanding that our relationship with God is not based on worth but on birth.”- Judah Smith Judah Smith completes Chapter 6 of How’s Your Soul? by discussing verses two and three of Psalm 131. 4.  “Like a weaned child with it’s mother; like a weaned child […]

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