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# Crown of Compassion

Ministry for Downsized Workers

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## Posts

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- [How to Stay Standing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2023/06/02/how-to-stay-standing/) - "How to Stay Standing" by Alli Patterson is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [Rest and refreshment places](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2023/06/14/rest-and-refreshment-places/) - In "Rest and refreshment places," Aundi Kolber stresses that our God tends and leads us to places where we can experience rest and refreshment.
- [And night shall be no more](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2023/06/19/and-night-shall-be-no-more/) - "And night shall be no more" is the June Meditation from Crown of Compassion Ministries and includes the choral number "E'en so" by Paul and Ruth Manz.
- [Hollywood diva transformations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/03/hollywood-diva-transformations/) - In "Hollywood diva transformations." Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore compare the Jewish messianic changes to Hollywood diva transformations.
- [Customization of our consuming](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/11/customization-of-our-consuming/) - In "Customization of our consuming," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore underscore that we live in a culture obsessed with customization.
- [Keeping Jesus in the sanctuary](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/14/keeping-jesus-in-the-sanctuary/) - In "Keeping Jesus in the sanctuary," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore caution against creating a convenient Jesus that involves keeping Jesus in the sanctuary.
- [Build-A-Jesus: comforting](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/15/build-a-jesus-comforting/) - In "Build-A- Jesus: comforting," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore note our tendency to keep our Build-A-Jesus while the real Jeus standing waiting at the door.
- [Make Jesus something less?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/31/make-jesus-something-less/) - In "Make Jesus something less?" Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore underscore that our culture tends to make Jesus something less than the Son of God.
- [Jesus defined Messiah clearly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/01/jesus-defined-messiah-clearly/) - In "Jesus defined Messiah clearly," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore underscore that Jesus defined Messiah for us in unmistakable terms.
- [The greatest enemy of the church?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/04/the-greatest-enemy-of-the-church/) - In "The greatest enemy of the church?" Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore contend that, in many ways, success has been the greatest enemy of the church.
- [Lip service to our moral values?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/05/lip-service-to-our-moral-values/) - In "Lip service to our moral values," Kye Idleman and Mark E. Moore believe we want leaders who pay lip service to our moral values but may not live them out.
- [Jesus' commands = suggestions?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/06/jesus-commands-suggestions/) - In "Jesus' commands = suggestions," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore caution that we miss the Messiah when we turn Jesus' commands into suggestions.
- [The cultural air we breathe](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/08/the-cultural-air-we-breathe/) - In "The cultural air we breathe," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore stress that, whether we realize it or not, we are all products of the cultural air we breathe.
- [Jesus' messianic claims in action](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/30/jesus-messianic-claims-in-action/) - In "Jesus' messianic claims in action," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore stress that Jesus' messianic claims were more than words, they were actions.
- [Missing the whole picture?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/29/missing-the-whole-picture/) - In "Missing the whole picture?" Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore wonder if we, like Peter, are missing the whole picture of who the Messiah is?
- [Peter's great confession](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/28/peters-great-confession/) - In "Peter's great confession," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore describe Peter's great confession as the granddaddy of them all.
- [Get-out-of-jail-free card?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/27/get-out-of-jail-free-card/) - In "Get-out-of-jail-free card?" Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore note that we long for a get-out-of-jail-free card, but Jesus wants to give us abundant life.
- [Jesus' blessing for you - bless others](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/25/jesus-blessing-for-you-bless-others/) - In "Jesus' blessing for you - bless others," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore ask if Jesus' blessing in your life is to bless others through you.
- [A flowing stream - living water](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/24/a-flowing-stream-living-water/) - In "A flowing stream - living water," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore stress that, in Jewish culture, living water referred to a flowing stream.
- [A Bible captcha, Messiah style?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/23/a-bible-captcha-messiah-style/) - In "A Bible captcha, Messiah style?" Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore asks if you could pick out all the aspects of the Messiah in a Bible captcha.
- [Take a fresh look: Jesus as Messiah](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/22/take-a-fresh-look-jesus-as-messiah/) - In "Take a fresh look: Jesus as Messiah," Kyle Idleman counsels that we would be wise to take a fresh look at Jesus' role as the Messiah.
- [A suffering Messiah?  Unimaginable!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/21/a-suffering-messiah-unimaginable/) - In "A suffering Messiah? Unimaginable!" Kyle Idleman underscores that a suffering Messiah would have been unimaginable to an Old Testament audience.
- [Suffering becomes the lens](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/20/suffering-becomes-the-lens/) - In "Suffering becomes the lens," Kyle Idleman stresses that the suffering we endure becomes the lens through which we see the world.
- [Completely different playbook](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/18/completely-different-playbook/) - In "Completely different playbook," Kyle Idleman compares the roles of emperor and Messiah. Same position, completely different playbook.
- [Turns our sighs into a song](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/17/turns-our-sighs-into-a-song/) - "Turns our sighs into a song" is the August Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the choral selection "God Gives the Song"
- [When God Seems Distant](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/08/when-god-seems-distant-2/)
- [Subconsciously dismiss idea of king](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/16/subconsciously-dismissing-idea-of-king/) - In "Subconsciously dismiss idea of king," Kyle Idleman states we subconsciously dismiss the idea of a king because it is so foreign to us.
- [Come to the water - and listen](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/20/come-to-the-water-and-listen/) - "Come to the water - and listen" is the July Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and features a choral rendition of the title hymn.
- [Morph to the Messiah v. reshape Him](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/07/morph-to-the-messiah-v-reshape-him/) - In "Morph to the Messiah v. reshape Him," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore underscore that we need to morph to the Messiah rather than reshape Him to our needs.
- [Jesus Messiah = Jesus Christ?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/09/02/jesus-messiah-jesus-christ/) - In "Jesus Messiah = Jesus Christ?" Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore back up and ask a simple question: "Are Jesus Messiah and Jesus Christ the same thing?"
- [Brokering freedom for others](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/26/brokering-freedom-for-others/) - In "Brokering freedom for others," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore underscores that following the Messiah is about brokering freedom for others.
- [The Messiah in the rearview mirror](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/19/the-messiah-in-the-rearview-mirror/) - In "The Messiah in the rearview mirror," Kyle Idleman stresses that we have the advantage of seeing the Messiah in the rearview mirror.
- [The music of the spheres](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/22/the-music-of-the-spheres/) - "The music of the spheres" is the June Short Mediation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "This is My Father's World" by Acapella Project Sonority.
- [Eternal life = depth of relationship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/13/eternal-life-depth-of-relationship/) - In "Eternal life = depth of relationship," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore note that Jesus defines eternal life as a quality of knowing, a depth of relationship.
- [The Messiah - a mere ticket agent?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/12/the-messiah-a-mere-ticket-agent/) - In "The Messiah - a mere ticket agent," Kyle Idleman and Mark E. Moore assert that we've reduced the Messiah to a mere heavenly ticket agent.
- [A more convenient Christ?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/10/a-more-convenient-christ/) - In "A more convenient Christ?" Kyle Idleman contends people have stopped looking for Jesus, instead settling for a more convenient Christ.
- [Jesus' last name = Christ?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/09/jesus-last-name-christ/) - In "Jesus' last name = Christ?" Kyle Idleman underscores that "Christ" is a Greek title that means "Messiah," not Jesus' last name.
- [True Christianity = a fight](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2022/12/11/true-christianity-a-fight/) - In "True Christianity = a fight," Timothy Keller cites J. C. Ryle, who asserted that true Christianity is a fight.
- [Invitations to fly to Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/07/invitations-to-fly-to-christ/) - In "Invitations to fly to Christ," Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that we should see our guilt and shame as invitations to fly to Christ.
- [Look into the mirror of reality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/06/look-into-the-mirror-of-reality/) - In "Look into the mirror of reality," Kyle Strobel and John Coe describe the time where we need to look into the mirror of reality with Jesus and tell Him all.
- [Talking to myself v. talking with God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/05/talking-to-myself-v-talking-with-god/) - In "Talking to myself v. talking with God," John Coe talks about a time where he was talking to himself rather than talking with God.
- [Confusion of the desert, desolation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/04/confusion-of-the-desert-desolation/) - In "Confusion of the desert, desolation" Kyle Strobel and John Coe talk about the confusion of the desert and desolation and what the Lord is teaching us.
- [The weight of ministry expectations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/03/the-weight-of-ministry-expectations/) - In "The weight of ministry expectation," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that the weight of ministry expectations can be debilitating.
- [A spiritual theologian](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/02/a-spiritual-theologian/) - In "A spiritual theologian," Kyle Strobel and John Coe point out that a spiritual theologian goes beyond an abstract description to real life application.
- [Grasp ahold of your struggle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/17/grasp-ahold-of-your-struggle/) - In "Grasp ahold of your struggle," Kyle Strobel and John Coe exhort you to grasp ahold of your struggle, fears, worries, and needs.
- [Formed supernaturally: one place only](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/19/formed-supernaturally-one-place-only/) - In "Formed supernaturally: in one place only," Kyle Strobel and John Coe exhort us to remember that we are formed supernaturally in one place only.
- [Mimic the experience of the desert](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/08/01/mimic-the-experience-of-the-desert/) - In "Mimic the experience of the desert," Kyle Strobel and John 'Coe stress that the whole point of spiritual practices is to mimic the experience of the desert.
- [Christian growth development](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/31/christian-growth-development/) - In "Christian growth development," Kyle Strobel and John Coe argue that the church equates Christian growth development with natural formation.
- [Weary wilderness walk-through](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/30/weary-wilderness-walk-through/) - In "Weary wilderness walk-through," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that the dearest of God's children has to walk through a weary wilderness.
- [To borrowed light take heed](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/29/to-borrowed-light-take-heed/) - In "To borrowed light take heed," Kyle Strobel and John Coe cite Francis Rous, who encouraged the soul in the dark to take heed to borrowed light.
- [Longing for God v. feeling better](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/28/longing-for-god-v-feeling-better/) - In "Longing for God v. feeling better," Kyle Strobel and John Coe ask if, through our devotion, we are longing for God or simply looking to feel better.
- [Desolation: an invitation to abide](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/27/desolation-an-invitation-to-abide/) - In "Desolation: an invitation to abide," Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that desolation is an invitation to abide, draw near to God in truth.
- [Our intentions often blind us](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/26/our-intentions-often-blind-us/) - In "Our intentions often blind us," Kyle Strobel and John Coe state that our intentions often blind us when they become lenses we look through.
- [Empower a self-formed life?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/25/empower-a-self-formed-life/) - In "Empower a self-formed life?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that God does not send the Holy Spirit to empower a self-formed life.
- [Spiritual practices - the goal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/24/spiritual-practices-the-goal/) - in "Spiritual practices - the goal," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that the goal of using spiritual practices is to lay down our lives to Christ.
- [Discordant notes in kingdom symphony](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/23/discordant-notes-in-kingdom-symphony/) - In "Discordant notes in kingdom symphony," Kyle Strobel and John Coe recognize that we are discordant notes in the symphony of God's kingdom.
- [Moving from rest, not our own works](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/22/moving-from-rest-not-our-own-works/) - In "Moving from rest, not our own works" Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that moving from rest has always been engrained in God's people.
- [Enacting new habits?  Not enough!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/21/enacting-new-habits-not-enough/) - In "Enacting new habits? Not enough!" Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that enacting new habits is not enough. Our own efforts fall short.
- [God's presence = spiritual pleasure?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/18/gods-presence-spiritual-pleasure/) - In "God's presence - spiritual pleasure?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe notes our temptation to equate God's presence with spiritual pleasure.
- [Tether God to what we can see](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/16/tether-god-to-what-we-can-see/) - In "Tether God to what we can see," Kyle Strobel and John Coe cautions against our tendency to tether God to what we can see. But God is free.
- [An overly caffeinated will](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/15/an-overly-caffeinated-will/) - In "An overly caffeinated will," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that over time we feel the effects of trying to live off an overly caffeinated will.
- [Self-fueled spirituality: a cure?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/14/self-fueled-spirituality-a-cure/) - In "Self-fueled spirituality: a cure?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that desolation is a cure for a self-fueled spirituality.
- [Overcome with weariness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/13/overcome-with-weariness/) - In "Overcome with weariness," Kyle Strobel and John Coe say it's easier to memorize verses about weariness than finding ourselves overcome with weariness.
- [Using God as a form of self-help?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/12/using-god-as-a-form-of-self-help/) - In "Using God as a form of self-help?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore our need to find out if we are using God as a form of self-help.
- [A sun without a sphere](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/18/a-sun-without-a-sphere/) - "A sun without a sphere" is the May Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "How Shall I Sing That Majesty."
- [Internalized equations in our souls](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/11/internalized-equations-in-our-souls/) - In "Internalized equations in our souls," Kyle Strobel and John Coe say that, in our desolation, we find that we have internalized equations in our souls.
- [A more abiding praise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/10/a-more-abiding-praise/) - In "A more abiding praise," Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that seeing what the Lord is doing in the desert helps fund a more abiding place.
- [Spiritual formation - embrace Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/09/spiritual-formation-embrace-jesus/) - In "Spiritual formation - embrace Jesus," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that spiritual formation is not actualizing ourselves.
- [Simply better versions of ourselves](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/08/simply-better-versions-of-ourselves/) - In "Simply better versions of ourselves," the authors cite Grant Macaskill, who cautions against settling for simply being better versions of ourselves.
- [Spiritual adulthood foundation=Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/19/spiritual-adulthood-foundationchrist/) - In "Spiritual adulthood foundation=Christ," Kyle Strobel and John Coe say that in spiritual adulthood, we must remember Christ is our foundation.
- [A spirituality divorced from reality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/21/a-spirituality-divorced-from-reality/) - In "A spirituality divorced from reality," Kyle Strobel and John Coe say that gentle, easy movement upward growth is a spirituality divorced from reality.
- [Attending to our self-talk](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/07/attending-to-our-self-talk/) - In "Attending to our self-talk," Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that we really understand the conscience by attending to our self-talk.
- [Secure hiding place away from God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/06/secure-hiding-place-away-from-god/) - In "Secure hiding place away from God," the authors cite Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who said conscience chases people away from God into their secure hiding place.
- [God's infallible voice: conscience?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/05/gods-infallible-voice-conscience/) - In "God's infallible voice: conscience?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe say that many Christians, oddly, believe the conscience is the infallible voice of God.
- [Sin and failure in the light of grace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/04/sin-and-failure-in-the-light-of-grace/) - In "Sin and failure in the light of grace." Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore our need to see our sin and failure in the light of grace.
- [Moralism - what maturity requires?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/03/moralism-what-maturity-requires/) - In "Moralism - what maturity requires?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that moralism tempts us because we assume it's what maturity requires.
- [Bear our crosses and follow him](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/02/bear-our-crosses-and-follow-him/) - In "Bear our crosses and follow him," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that Jesus calls us to bear our crosses and follow him.
- [The danger with our brokenness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/07/01/the-danger-with-our-brokenness/) - In "The danger with our brokenness," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that we tend to ignore the danger with our brokenness.
- [One who comes to God honestly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/30/one-who-comes-to-god-honestly/) - In "One who comes to God honestly," Kyle Strobel and John Coe talk about the heart of one who comes to God honestly share the truth of what's going on.
- [Handing our life over to Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/29/handing-our-life-over-to-jesus/) - In "Handing our life over to Jesus," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that we have nothing to lose in handing our life over to Jesus.
- [Fault lines in the soul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/28/fault-lines-in-the-soul/) - In "Fault lines in the soul," Kyle Strobel and John Coe underscore that two sentries, anger and sadness, serve as fault lines in the soul.
- [A smokescreen to avoid the truth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/27/a-smokescreen-to-avoid-the-truth/) - In "A smokescreen to avoid the truth," Kyle Strobel and John Coe assert that brokenness, rebellion, and sin serve as a smokescreen to avoid the truth.
- [Exercise prophetic imagination](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/29/exercise-prophetic-imagination/) - In "Exercise prophetic imagination," Mark Batterson says that whether you're a dreamer or problem solver, you must exercise prophetic imagination.
- [Spiritual practices: broken, worldly?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/26/spiritual-practices-broken-worldly/) - In "Spiritual practices: broken, worldly?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress we need to see how broken, worldly, and sinful our spiritual practices can be.
- [A causal spirituality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/25/a-causal-spirituality/) - In "A causal spirituality," Kyle Strobel and John Coe say that, in a causal spirituality, certain acts secure a response from God to give us what we want.
- [True affection - deep and abiding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/24/true-affection-deep-and-abiding/) - In "True affection - deep and abiding," Kyle Strobel and John Coe define true affection as a deep and abiding disposition of the soul.
- [Live in abiding affection - our call](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/23/live-in-abiding-affection-our-call/) - In "Live in abiding affection - our call," Kyle Strobel and John Coe say we're called to live in abiding affection, rather than in passions.
- [Priestly King, enthroned for ever](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/20/priestly-king-enthroned-for-ever/) - "Priestly King, enthroned for ever," is the April Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Christ Triumphant, Ever Reigning."
- [A roadmap of our life with Jesus?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/20/a-roadmap-of-our-life-with-jesus/) - In "A roadmap of our life with Jesus?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe observe that we would all love a roadmap of our life with Jesus.
- [The medicine we need - desolation?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/18/the-medicine-we-need-desolation/) - In "The medicine we need - desolation?" Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that desolation is often the medicine we need. But not the one we want.
- [An experience of his absence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/17/an-experience-of-his-absence/) - In "An experience of his absence," Kyle Strobel and John Coe observe that many of us revolt at the idea that God would give us an experience of his absence.
- [Buy spiritual experience in bulk](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/16/buy-spiritual-experience-in-bulk/) - In "Buy spiritual experience in bulk," Kyle Strobel and John Coe note our desire to buy spiritual experience in bulk, rather than rely on God.
- [When the waterline drops](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/15/when-the-waterline-drops/) - In "When the waterline drops," Kyle Strobel and John Coe states that when the waterline drops, it represents an invitation to a deeper way.
- [The freedom of the Spirit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/14/the-freedom-of-the-spirit/) - In "The freedom of the Spirit," Kyle Strobel and John Coe caution against replacing the freedom of the Spirit with things we can control.
- [The truth of our hearts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/13/the-truth-of-our-hearts/) - In "The truth of our hearts," Kyle Strobel and John Coe stress that the Lord wants us to see and know the truth of our hearts.
- [Walking with him in the truth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/12/walking-with-him-in-the-truth/) - In "Walking with him in the truth," Kyle Strobel says that knowing God's grace, mercy, and kindness happens through walking with him in the truth.
- [Conflating the Spirit's work](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/11/conflating-the-spirits-work/) - In "Conflating the Spirit's work," Kyle Strobel asserts that one of the main mistakes of our spiritual childhood involves conflating the Spirit's work.
- [Our assumptions about growth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/10/our-assumptions-about-growth/) - In "Our assumptions about growth," Kyle Strobel underscores that we need to unlearn our assumptions about growth. Because many lead us away from God.
- [When consolation fades](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/09/when-consolation-fades/) - In "When consolation fades," Kyle Strobel talks about when consolation fades and the Lord gives us the gift of desolation (yes, it's a gift).
- [Embrace his way of life?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/08/embrace-his-way-of-life/) - In "Embrace his way of life?" coauthor Kyle Strobel asks if we will follow Jesus into the dark and embrace his way of life.
- [I Choose Love: How to Love . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/07/i-choose-love-how-to-love/) - "I Choose Love: How to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself (Moody, 2026) by Chip Ingram is the latest addition to Crown's annotated bibliography.
- [Advancing toward the high calling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/06/advancing-toward-the-high-calling/) - In "Advancing toward the high calling," Chip Ingram exhorts you to be intentional about advancing toward the high calling you've been given.
- [Standing in the gap as God's rep](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/05/standing-in-the-gap-as-gods-rep/) - In "Standing in the gap as God's rep," Chip Ingram stresses that standing in the gap as God's representative is for all Christians, not just superstars.
- [Real caring involves sacrifice](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/04/real-caring-involves-sacrifice/) - In "Real caring involves sacrifice," Chip Ingram stresses that real caring involves more than a kind word or emotional concern. It involves sacrifice.
- [A pure, simple devotion to Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/03/a-pure-simple-devotion-to-christ/) - In "A pure, simple devotion to Christ," Chip Ingram acknowledges that it is an uphill battle for all of us to live from a pure, simple devotion to Christ.
- [No Christian superstars](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/02/no-christian-superstars/) - In "No Christian superstars," Chip Ingram underscores that there are no Christian superstars. Spiritually speaking, no one is big or small.
- [Calling card of the early church - joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/06/01/calling-card-of-the-early-church-joy/) - In "Calling card of the early church - joy, " Chip Ingram underscores that, in the midst of incredible difficulty, joy was the calling card of the early church.
- [Our tongues - the rudders of our lives](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/31/our-tongues-the-rudders-of-our-lives/) - In "Our tongues - the rudders of our lives," Chip Ingram stresses that our tongues are the rudders of our lives. To change your life, change your words.
- [Reversing the toxic culture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/30/reversing-the-toxic-culture/) - In "Reversing the toxic culture," Chip Ingram underscores that reversing the toxic culture of division starts with Christians.
- [A gold mine - our salvation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/29/a-gold-mine-our-salvation/) - In "A gold mine - our salvation," Chip Ingram compares our salvation to a gold mine. You possess the truth of God's Word, but you also need to access it.
- [Long obedience = ALAT](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/31/long-obedience-alat/) - In "Long obedience = ALAT," Mark Batterson stresses that when it comes to long obedience, ALAT is the name of the game - as long as it takes.
- [A trophy of His grace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/28/a-trophy-of-his-grace/) - In "A trophy of His grace," Chip Ingram underscores that God wants you to be a trophy of His grace. He wants to glorify His children.
- [True greatness starts with a mindset](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/27/true-greatness-starts-with-a-mindset/) - In "True greatness starts with a mindset," Chip Ingram states that true greatness starts with a mindset that approaches all things with humility.
- [Overcome pride: replace with humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/26/overcome-pride-replace-with-humility/) - In "Overcome pride: replace with humility," Chip Ingram underscores that the way to overcome pride is to replace it with humility.
- [A bondservant - the lowest kind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/25/a-bondservant-the-lowest-kind/) - In "A bondservant - the lowest king," Chip Ingram stresses that Jesus took on the essential nature of not just any human being, but a bondservant.
- [Kingdom-minded people](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/23/kingdom-minded-people/) - In "Kingdom-minded people," Chip Ingram stresses that we need kingdom-minded people in all spheres of influence to advance God's kingdom.
- [The ladder of descent or ascent?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/24/the-ladder-of-descent/) - In "The ladder of descent or ascent?" Chip Ingram says that the ladder of descent into greatness leads to humility, selflessness, love, and sacrifice.
- [How God measures greatness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/22/how-god-measures-greatness/) - In "How God measures greatness," Chip Ingram states that how God measures greatness and how to get there in ways we do not expect.
- [An innate desire to be significant](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/21/an-innate-desire-to-be-significant/) - In "An innate desire to be significant," Chip Ingram stresses that God has planted within us an innate desire to be significant.
- [Let shouts of holy joy outburst](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/23/let-shouts-of-holy-joy-outburst/) - "Let shouts of holy joy outburst is the Easter Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "The Strife Is O'er, the Battle Done."
- [Everyday little things that bless](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/20/everyday-little-things-that-bless/) - In "Everyday little things that bless," Chip Ingram underscores that it's in the everyday little things that we develop character and that people are blessed.
- [Spiritual laws make or break you](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/22/spiritual-laws-make-or-break-you/) - In "Spiritual laws make or break you, Mark Batterson underscores that you cannot break spiritual laws. Rather, they make or break you.
- [Cultivate a humble heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/19/cultivate-a-humble-heart/) - In "Cultivate a humble heart," Chip Ingram underscores our need to go into training in order to cultivate a humble heart. That requires practice.
- [Humility - necessary for love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/15/humility-necessary-for-love/) - In "Humility - necessary for love, Chip Ingram stresses that humility is necessary for love. Because we simply cannot love pridefully.
- [Clothe our prideful thoughts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/17/clothe-our-prideful-thoughts/) - In "Clothe our prideful thoughts," Chip Ingram says we can still nurture pride even though we clothe our prideful thoughts with Bible verses.
- [An accurate view of yourself](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/16/an-accurate-view-of-yourself/) - In "An accurate view of yourself," Chip Ingram defines humility as simply having an accurate view of yourself. Not too high or too low.
- [There is a crack in everything](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2017/12/20/there-is-a-crack-in-everything/) - In "There is a crack in everything," John Ortberg cites singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen, who sings everything has a crack through which light enters.
- [Battle between a flourishing self and a languishing self](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2017/06/07/battle-flourishing-self-languishing-self/) - In "Battle between a flourishing self and a languishing self," Pastor John Ortberg says that this battle occurs inside your soul.
- [Forgiveness and reconciliation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2016/02/28/forgiveness-and-reconciliation/) - In "Forgiveness and reconciliation," June Hunt states that while forgiveness can lead to reconciliation, sometimes it isn't warranted or even possible.
- [Think like God thinks](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2016/03/10/think-like-god-thinks/) - In "Think like God thinks," June Hunt states "we forgive not because it feels right, but because we doggedly decide to follow Christ's example."
- [Common heart = identical heart?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/14/common-heart-identical-heart/) - In "Common heart = identical heart?" Chip Ingram underscores that having a common heart does not mean having an identical heart.
- [A legalistic straitjacket?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/13/a-legalistic-straitjacket/) - In "A legalistic straitjacket?" Chip Ingram stresses that, far from being a legalistic straitjacket, God's commands are given for our good.
- [The Platinum Rule - God's calling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/12/the-platinum-rule-gods-calling/) - In "The Platinum Rule - God's calling," Chip Ingram underscores that the apostle Paul takes the Golden Rule one step further. Chip calls it the Platinum Rule.
- [Undermine the gospel message?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/11/undermine-the-gospel-message/) - in "Undermine the gospel message?" Chip Ingram states that we undermine the gospel message when we fail to demonstrate that we're bound together in love.
- [Clearly reflect the heart of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/10/clearly-reflect-the-heart-of-god/) - In "Clearly reflect the heart of God," Chip Ingram states that when we embody the love and unity of the Father, we clearly reflect the heart of God.
- [A person, not an impersonal force](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/09/a-person-not-an-impersonal-force/) - In "A person, not an impersonal force," Chip Ingram underscores that God is a person, not an impersonal force. We bring joy to His heart.
- [The life-transforming impact of love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/08/the-life-transforming-impact-of-love/) - In "The life-transforming impact of love," Chip Ingram states you can make a significant choice of love and make a life-transforming impact.
- [Little control over love?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/07/little-control-over-love/) - In "Little control over love?" Chip Ingram challenges the core premise that we have little control over love. Because love is a choice.;o
- [Gradually Then Suddenly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/06/gradually-then-suddenly/) - "Gradually Then Suddenly: How to Dream Bigger . . ." by Mark Batterson is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's annotated bibliography.
- [Trade pain for gain?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/05/trade-pain-for-gain/) - In "Trade pain for gain?" Mark Batterson stresses that we can take the path of least resistance or we can trade pain for gain.
- [Ungoverned anxiety: a low-grade fever](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/04/ungoverned-anxiety-a-low-grade-fever/) - In "Ungoverned anxiety: a low-grade fever," Mark Batterson compares ungoverned anxiety to a low-grade fever that infects everything we do.
- [False assumptions possess big power](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/03/false-assumptions-possess-big-power/) - In "False assumptions possess big power," Mark Batterson cautions that false assumptions have the power to rule your life in a big way.
- [The life lie: subtle self-sabotage](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/02/the-life-lie-subtle-self-sabotage/) - In "The life lie: subtle self-sabotage," Mark Batterson describes the life lie as a subtle form of self-sabotage and our guiding fiction.
- [The chrysalis called crisis](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/05/01/the-chrysalis-called-crisis/) - In "The chrysalis called crisis," Mark Batterson underscores that the strongest convictions are formed in the chrysalis of crisis.
- [Rise up and call you blessed?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/30/rise-up-and-call-you-blessed/) - In "Rise up and call you blessed?" Mark Batterson cautions that when God gives you a vision, don't expect everyone to rise up and call you blessed.
- [When we see the rainbow, the shower's over](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2017/07/24/see-rainbow-showers/) - "When we see the rainbow, the shower's over" is the latest Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes Kari Jobe singing "Let Your Glory Fall."
- [Your most powerful weapon](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2016/03/30/your-most-powerful-weapon/) - In "Your most powerful weapon," author June Hunt writes that when Satan accuses, we must respond with the truth of God's Word.
- [A prophet, whether you know it or not](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/28/a-prophet-whether-you-know-it-or-not/) - In "A prophet, whether you know it or not," Mark Batterson underscores that whatever you do, you are a prophet. For example, a teacher-prophet.
- [Discipling, developing, and deploying](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/27/discipling-developing-and-deploying/) - In "Discipling, developing, and deploying " Mark Batterson asks if you see people's problem or are discipling, developing and deploying them.
- [The way forward = backward?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/26/the-way-forward-backward/) - In "The way forward = backward?" Mark Batterson stresses that sometimes the way forward is backward. Because our destiny lies buried in our history.
- [Your greatest legacy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/25/your-greatest-legacy/) - In "Your greatest legacy," Mark Batterson stresses that your greatest legacy will have nothing to do with what you do forty hours a week.
- [Throw stones or throw parties](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/24/throw-stones-or-throw-parties/) - In "Throw stones or throw parties," Mark Batterson underscores that we live in a cultural moment where people throw stones at those they disagree with.
- [Our coaching tree, our mentoring chain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/23/our-coaching-tree-our-mentoring-chain/) - In "Our coaching tree, our mentoring chain" Mark Batterson underscores that our legacy is measured by our coaching tree, our mentoring chain.
- [Speed of a seed v. speed of light](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/22/speed-of-a-seed-v-speed-of-light/) - In "Speed of a seed v. speed of light," Mark Batterson states that, in the kingdom of God, things generally happen at the speed of a seed.
- [To understand people, stand under](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/21/to-understand-people-stand-under/) - In "To understand people, stand under" Mark Batterson stresses that if you want to understand people, you need to stand under.
- [Thank God for the Nathans](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/22/thank-god-for-the-nathans/)
- [Good ancestor = Good Samaritan](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/19/good-ancestor-good-samaritan/) - In "Good ancestor = Good Samaritan," Mark Batterson sees good ancestor and Good Samaritan as synonyms. The greatest good for the greatest number of people.
- [Planting seeds in another's garden](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/18/planting-seeds-in-another-garden/) - In "Planting seeds in another's garden," Mark Batterson states that you reap a harvest in your garden through planting seeds in someone else's garden.
- [Offbeat moments - unscripted](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/17/offbeat-moments-unscripted/) - In "Offbeat moments - unscripted," Mark Batterson stresses that legacy often results from offbeat moments that you can't script.
- [A ritual of reckoning](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/16/a-ritual-of-reckoning/) - In "A ritual of reckoning," Mark Batterson underscores that the best way to prepare for the day of reckoning is through a ritual of reckoning.
- [A thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/15/a-thousand-piece-jigsaw-puzzle/) - In "A thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle," Mark Batterson asserts that everyone we meet is a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, so be empathetic.
- [A green hill far away](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/16/a-green-hill-far-away/) - "A green hill far away' is the Lenten Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the well-known children's hymn by Cecil Francis Alexander.
- [Among the most maladjusted - Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/14/among-the-most-maladjusted-jesus/) - In "Among the most maladjusted - Jesus," Mark Batterson cites A. W. Tozer, who asserted that Jesus was among the most maladjusted people of His generation.
- [The adjacent possible - a step closer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/13/the-adjacent-possible-a-step-closer/) - In "The adjacent possible - a step closer," Mark Batterson underscores that good decisions bring us one step closer to the adjacent possible.
- [The hummingbird effect](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/12/the-hummingbird-effect/) - In "The hummingbird effect," Mark Batterson states that the hummingbird effect happens in clusters, like a shot chart in basketball.
- [The day of small beginnings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/11/the-day-of-small-beginnings/) - In "The day of small beginnings," Mark Batterson exhorts us not to despise the day of small beginnings. Don't get paralyzed by outcomes.
- [Quitting on future-tense possibilities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/10/quitting-on-future-tense-possibilities/) - In "Quitting on future-tense possibilities," Mark Batterson stresses that you're always quitting on future-tense possibilities,
- [The final authority - God's Word](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/09/the-final-authority-gods-word/) - In "The final authority - God's Word," Mark Batterson underscores that if we believe that God's Word is the final authority, we have nothing to fear.
- [The world needs the church](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/08/the-world-needs-the-church/) - In "The world needs the church," Mark Batterson underscores that because the world does not know who it is, the world needs the church.
- [Faithfulness = incarnating the gospel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/07/faithfulness-incarnating-the-gospel/) - In "Faithfulness = incarnating the gospel," Mark Batterson asserts that faithfulness is incarnating the gospel, not holding the fort.
- [Consecration - going all in with God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/06/consecration-going-all-in-with-god/) - In "Consecration - going all in with God," Mark Batterson defines consecration as going all out with God, submitting our past, present, and future to Him.
- [Theory of everything - TOE](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/05/theory-of-everything-toe/) - In "Theory of everything - TOE," Mark Batterson presents his theory of everything. The answer to every prayer centers on more of the Holy Spirit.
- [Just noticeable difference - JND](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/04/just-noticeable-difference-jnd/) - In "Just noticeable difference - JND," Mark Batterson underscores that God's anointing creates your just noticeable difference - JND.
- [God-sized dreams = long obedience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/03/god-sized-dreams-long-obedience/) - In "God-sized dreams = long obedience," Mark Batterson underscores that going after God-sized requires long obedience to get there.
- [The sigmoid curve - a leap of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/02/the-sigmoid-curve-a-leap-of-faith/) - In "The sigmoid curve - a leap of faith," Mark Batterson describes the sigmoid curve as a leap of faith, a time when one must jump the curve.
- [Spinning your wheels in the mud](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/04/01/spinning-your-wheels-in-the-mud/) - In "Spinning your wheels in the mud," Mark Batterson compares trying hard to get out of a rut to spinning your wheels in the mud.
- [Embodied repetition marks ritual](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/30/embodied-repetition-marks-ritual/) - In "Embodied repetition marks ritual," Mark Batterson cites Angela Duckworth, who underscores that ritual is marked by embodied repetition.
- [No cheat codes for excellence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/29/no-cheat-codes-for-excellence/) - In "No cheat codes for excellence," Mark Batterson cites Angela Duckworth, who stresses that there are no cheat codes for excellence.
- [Nurture over nature, mind over matter](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/28/nurture-over-nature-mind-over-matter/) - In "Nurture over nature, mind over matter" Mark Batterson states that if you press him, he believes in nurture over nature and mind over matter.
- [Tamarisk trees - resilient](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/27/tamarisk-trees-resilient/) - In "Tamarisk trees - resilient," Mark Batterson stresses that tamarisk trees, and their deep roots, symbolize long obedience in the same direction.
- [Small acts of obedience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/26/small-acts-of-obedience/) - In "Small acts of obedience," Mark Batterson underscores that it is the small acts of obedience that get baked into other people's lives.
- [Prioritize dreaming personally](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/24/prioritize-dreaming-personally/) - In "Prioritize dreaming personally," Mark Batterson underscores your need to prioritize dreaming personally and professionally.
- [Following Jesus, no greater adventure!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/25/following-jesus-no-greater-adventure/) - In "Following Jesus, no greater adventure," Mark Batterson states that, in his opinion and experience, there's no greater adventure than following Jesus.
- [The tyranny of the urgent](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/21/the-tyranny-of-the-urgent/) - In "The tyranny of the urgent," Mark Batterson notes that our tendency to think shorter binds us to the tyranny of the urgent.
- [A vision of God high and exalted](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/20/a-vision-of-god-high-and-exalted/) - In "A vision of God high and exalted," Mark Batterson asserts that even more than a vision from God, we need a vision of God.
- [Star of mercy, star of grace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/19/star-of-mercy-star-of-grace/) - "Star of mercy, star of grace" is the January Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion Ministries and includes the choral work "The Three Kings."
- [Faith on Sundays - a thin slice](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/19/faith-on-sundays-a-thin-slice/) - In "Faith on Sundays - a thin slice," Mark Batterson underscores that faith on Sundays represents only a thin slice of what it means to follow Jesus.
- [Offending God - or people](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/18/offending-god-or-people/) - In "Offending God - or people," Mark Batterson underscores that if you're afraid of offending God, you will inevitably offend people.
- [Auditing your regrets - painful](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/17/auditing-your-regrets-painful/) - In "Auditing your regrets - painful," Mark Batterson says that, in auditing your regrets, you leverage those regrets to learn from them.
- [Action regrets and inaction regrets](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/16/action-regrets-and-inaction-regrets/) - In "Action regrets and inaction regrets," Mark Batterson states that action regrets can be quite painful, but inaction regrets ache the soul.
- [The mouse's search for the cat](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/15/the-mouses-search-for-the-cat/) - In "The mouse's search for the cat," Timothy Keller cites C. S. Lewis, who compares man's search for God to the mouse's search for the cat.
- [Your master or your housekeeper](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/13/your-master-or-your-housekeeper/) - In "Your master or your housekeeper," Timothy Keller asks if God is your master or your housekeeper. If you place limitations on God, you aren't a servant.
- [Opportunity costs vs. actual costs](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/15/opportunity-costs-vs-actual-costs/) - In "Opportunity costs vs. actual costs," Mark Batterson says that when you count the cost, you must weight actual costs and opportunity costs.
- [A grand gesture and God-sized goals](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/14/a-grand-gesture-and-god-sized-goals/) - In "A grand gesture and God-sized goals," Mark Batterson underscores that it often takes a grand gesture to achieve God-sized goals.
- [The risk-reward ratio](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/13/the-risk-reward-ratio/) - In "The risk-reward ratio," Mark Batterson underscores that uncertainty is always part of the risk-reward ratio. Faith carries no money-back guarantee.
- [Testimony is prophecy!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/12/testimony-is-prophecy/) - In "Testimony is prophecy! " Mark Batterson stresses that testimony is prophecy because if God did it before, He can do it again.
- [One God idea vs. a thousand good ideas](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/10/one-god-idea-vs-a-thousand-good-ideas/) - In "One God idea vs. a thousand good ideas," Mark Batterson testifies that he'd rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.
- [Long vision - telescopic, microscopic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/11/long-vision-telescopic-and-microscopic/) - In "Long vision - telescopic and microscopic," Mark Batterson underscores that long vision never loses sight of the big picture. Yet no detail is too small.
- [Territory of guilt and forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/14/territory-of-guilt-and-forgiveness/) - In "Territory of guilt and forgiveness," Timothy Keller says the territory of guilt and forgiveness lies in the realm of faith and spirituality.
- [The eyes of the heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/06/the-eyes-of-the-heart/) - In "The eyes of the heart," Michael John Cusick underscores that God created and invited us to see with the eyes of the heart.
- [One link in the church history chain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/09/one-link-in-the-church-history-chain/) - In "One link in the church history chain," Mark Batterson asserts that, in the kingdom of God, each of us is one link in the chain of church history.
- [Reverse engineer miracles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/08/reverse-engineer-miracles/) - In "Reverse engineer miracles," Mark Batterson states that when you reverse engineer miracles, you find they happened gradually then suddenly.
- [Golden Rule - shortsighted take](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/07/golden-rule-shortsighted-take/) - In "Golden Rule - shortsighted take," Mark Batterson cautions against a shortsighted take on the Golden Rule. Blessing always has a domino effect.
- [Wide-angle and long throw lenses](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/06/wide-angle-and-long-throw-lenses/) - In "Wide-angle and long throw lenses, " Mark Batterson underscores that long vision looks at life through both wide-angle and long throw lenses.
- [Too focused on the understory?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/05/too-focused-on-the-understory/) - In "Too focused on the understory?" Mark Batterson finds that his discouragement usually from being too focused on the understory.
- [God-given vision: bigger and better](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/04/god-given-vision-bigger-and-better/) - In "God-given vision: bigger and better," Mark Batterson underscores that a God-given vision always revolves around others.
- [No cheat codes spiritually](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/03/no-cheat-codes-spiritually/) - In "No cheat codes spiritually," Mark Batterson underscores that no cheat codes exist spiritually, relationally, or professionally.
- [Wounds of presence, wounds of absence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/25/wounds-of-presence-wounds-of-absence/) - In "Wounds of presence, wounds of absence" Michael John Cusick defines wounds of absence as things done to us that never should have happened.
- [No reference point for trust?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/24/no-reference-point-for-trust/) - In "No reference point for trust?" Michael John Cusick stresses that if you haven't been seen or soothed, you have little or no reference point for trust.
- [The roller coaster called life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/02/the-roller-coaster-called-life/) - In "The roller coaster called life," Mark Batterson discusses what happens when you ride the roller coaster of life long enough.
- [A journey, not a destination - life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/03/01/a-journey-not-a-destination-life/) - In "A journey, not a destination - life," Mark Batterson stresses that life is a journey, not a destination. Therefore, he advises, enjoy the journey.
- [Overnight success - an oxymoron](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/28/overnight-success-an-oxymoron/) - In "Overnight success - an oxymoron," Mark Batterson asserts that the phrase overnight success is an oxymoron. There are no shortcuts to success.
- [What is Wrong with the World?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/27/what-is-wrong-with-the-world/) - "What is Wrong with the World? The Surprising, Hopeful Answer to the Question We Cannot Avoid" is the latest addition to Crown's annotated bibliography.
- [Miserable with mercy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/26/miserable-with-mercy/) - In "Miserable with mercy," Timothy Keller describes what it means for us to make ourselves miserable with mercy, to melt our hearts.
- [Minesweeping your own heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/25/minesweeping-your-own-heart/) - In "Minesweeping your own heart," Timothy Keller defines repentance as the process of minesweeping your own heart. You must deal with your sins.
- [Circumstances - cause of my sin?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/24/circumstances-cause-of-my-sin/) - In "Circumstances - cause of my sin?" Timothy Keller underscores that you need to say to yourself that your circumstances are not the cause of your sin.
- [Repentance: sense of guilt, dread?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/23/repentance-sense-of-guilt-dread/) - In "Repentance: sense of guilt, dread?" Timothy Keller says true repentance brings change, not a sense of guilt and dread.
- [The heart of the fire](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/21/the-heart-of-the-fire/) - In "The heart of the fire," Timothy Keller describes our insatiable need for more as the heart of the fire. Eventually it consumes everything.
- [He will bring us goodness and light](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/15/he-will-bring-us-goodness-and-light/) - "He will bring us goodness and light" is the Christmas Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the song "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
- [The driver's seat of our life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/20/the-drivers-seat-of-our-life/) - In "The driver's seat of our life," Timothy Keller says we may think we've placed ourselves in the driver's seat of our life. That's an illusion.
- [Spiritual slaves to sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/19/spiritual-slaves-to-sin/) - In "Spiritual slaves to sin," Timothy Keller states that we're spiritual slaves to sin. We see what we should do, but we fail to do it.
- [Moral-dignity pants](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/18/moral-dignity-pants/) - In "Moral-dignity pants, " Timothy Keller cites Hannibal Lecter's comment to Officer Starling: "You've got everybody in moral-dignity pants."
- [Pay the price of usefulness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/18/pay-the-price-of-usefulness/) - In "Pay the price of usefulness, " Timothy Keller underscores that you can become a light in a dark place when you pay the price of usefulness.
- [The somebody became nobody](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/17/the-somebody-became-nobody/) - In "The somebody became nobody," Timothy Keller states that the somebody became a nobody so nobodies could become somebodies. That's the gospel.
- [Self-view > self-image](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/12/self-view-self-image/) - In "Self-view > self-image," Timothy Keller underscores that the gospel gives us a self-view much greater than any self-image we create.
- [An invisible problem - sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/11/an-invisible-problem-sin/) - In "An invisible problem - sin," Timothy Keller underscores that the visible problems of this world are the result of an invisible problem.
- [The one greater than Jonah - Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/10/the-one-greater-than-jonah-jesus/) - In "The one greater than Jonah - Jesus," Timothy Keller underscores that Jesus, the one greater than Jonah, offers us HIs grace.
- [Divided and full of something else](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/09/divided-and-full-of-something-else/) - In "Divided and full of something else," Timothy Keller cautions that our hearts will often by divided and full of something else than God.
- [Your functional salvation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/08/your-functional-salvation/) - In "Your functional salvation," Timothy Keller says if the thing your lost was your everything, that thing was your functional salvation.
- [The essential spirit of sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/07/the-essential-spirit-of-sin/) - In "The essential spirit of sin," Timothy Keller underscores our need to understand the essential spirit of sin. Or it stands a good chance of defeating us.
- [Desert trees by nature](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/06/desert-trees-by-nature/) - In "Desert trees by nature," Timothy Keller stresses that because we're desert trees by nature, we need outside intervention to experience rebirth.
- [A downpour in the desert](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/05/a-downpour-in-the-desert/) - In "A downpour in the desert," Timothy Keller cautions that a downpour in the desert is temporary if your roots aren't planted by the stream.
- [Your religion = your ultimate concern](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/04/your-religion-your-ultimate-concern/) - In "Your religion = your ultimate concern," Timothy Keller defines your religion as whatever your mind draws hope from - your ultimate concern.
- [Everyone has faith in something](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/03/everyone-has-faith-in-something/) - In "Everyone has faith in something," Timothy Keller underscores that everyone has faith in something - where we put our trust.
- [The greatest sign - Christ crucified](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/02/the-greatest-sign-christ-crucified/) - In "The greatest sign - Christ crucified," Timothy Keller observes that prideful people miss the greatest sign they could ever have: Christ crucified.
- [God owes us - pharisaic assumption](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/02/01/god-owes-us-pharisaic-assumption/) - In "God owes us - pharisaic assumption," Timothy Keller talks about the pharisaic assumption that God owes us. That denies the very idea of grace.
- [When the predator is most effective](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/31/when-the-predator-is-most-effective/) - In "When the predator is most effective," Timothy Keller says that when the predator (sin) is most effective, it takes us over from the inside.
- [Spirit of grace vs. spirit of sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/30/spirit-of-grace-vs-spirit-of-sin/) - In "Spirit of grace vs. spirit of sin," Timothy Keller says the spirit of grace says "my life for yours' and the spirit of sin says 'your life for mine.'
- [The heart of self-deception](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/29/the-heart-of-self-deception/) - In "The heart of self-deception," Timothy Keller says a refusal to handle the most earth-shattering truth of all lies at the heart of self-deception.
- [Deep down, we're small](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/28/deep-down-were-small/) - In "Deep down, we're small" Timothy Keller states that the fundamental reason we deceive ourselves is because deep down we know we are small.
- [An infinite capacity to lie](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/27/an-infinite-capacity-to-lie/) - In "An infinite capacity to lie," Timothy Keller underscores that we possess an infinite capacity to lie to ourselves. To not know the truth.
- [The power of self-deception](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/26/the-power-of-self-deception/) - In "The power of self-deception," Timothy Keller underscores that King Saul's posture perfectly illustrates the power of self-deception.
- [Your heart of hearts - under God?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/25/your-heart-of-hearts-under-god/) - In "Your heart of hearts - under God?" Timothy Keller cautions to watch for what is in your heart of hearts - to be God or under God.
- [After you've done a sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/24/after-youve-done-a-sin/) - In "After you've done a sin," Timothy Keller offers this pithy little saying: "After you've done a sin, the sin does you."
- [Sense of entitlement = demandingness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/23/sense-of-entitlement-demandingness/) - In "Sense of entitlement = demandingness." Timothy Keller asserts that a briber of God carries a sense of entitlement and demandingness.
- [Worship versus bribery](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/22/worship-versus-bribery/) - In "Worship versus bribery," Timothy Keller asserts that we must back up worship with our life, or it's not love. Instead, it's bribery.
- [Makes itself look smaller - sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/21/makes-itself-look-smaller-sin/) - In "Makes itself look smaller - sin," Timothy Keller stresses that sin, by its nature, makes itself look smaller than it really is.
- [Christianity = other-worldly?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/20/christianity-other-worldly/) - In "Christianity = other-worldly?" Timothy Keller cites Dorothy L, Sayers, who disparages the notion that Christianity is an other-worldly religion.
- [And rise to bless you still](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/17/and-rise-to-bless-you-still/) - "And rise to bless you still" is the November Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion Ministries and includes the hymn "O God, Beyond All Praising."
- [The supreme question we ask repeatedly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/17/the-supreme-question-we-ask-repeatedly/) - In "The supreme question we ask repeatedly," the late Timothy Keller talks about the supreme question each of us asks ourselves time and time again.
- [Sacred Attachment: Escaping . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/16/sacred-attachment-escaping/) - "Sacred Attachment: Escaping Spiritual Exhaustion and Trusting in Divine Love" by Michael John Cusick is the latest addition to Crown's Annotated Bibliography.
- [Metabolized then internalized](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/15/metabolized-then-internalized/) - In "Metabolized then internalized," Michael John Cusick underscores that love cannot be metabolized until it is internalized.
- [An ocean of divine love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/14/an-ocean-of-divine-love/) - In "An ocean of divine love," Michael John Cusick encourages us to embrace being in an ocean of divine love. Not a raindrop apart from a flood.
- [No transaction in God's economy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/13/no-transaction-in-gods-economy/) - In "No transaction in God's economy," Michael John Cusick states that spiritual practices are transformational, rather than transactional.
- [Practice and presence - related](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/12/practice-and-presence-related/) - In "Practice and presence - related," Michael John Cusick underscores that practice and presence are related, enabling us to be present with God.
- [An implanted seed - God's Word](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/11/an-implanted-seed-gods-word/) - In "An implanted seed - God's Word," Max Lucado underscores that our hearts are the soil, and God's Word is an implanted seed.
- [A posture of the heart - vulnerability](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/11/a-posture-of-the-heart-vulnerability/) - In "A posture of the heart - vulnerability," Michael John Cusick stresses that a posture of the heart comes from a place of poverty and humility.
- [Spiritual practices - showing up](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/10/spiritual-practices-showing-up/) - In "Spiritual practices - showing up," Michael John Cusick underscores that spiritual practices involve being present and showing up.
- [Beauty and suffering rivet attention](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/08/beauty-and-suffering-rivet-attention/) - In "Beauty and suffering rivet attention," Michael John Cusick underscores that the imagination is fueled most powerfully by beauty and suffering.
- [Spiritual imagination activation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/09/spiritual-imagination-activation/) - In "Spiritual imagination activation," Michael John Cusick underscores that spiritual imagination requires vertical alignment to maximize its potential.
- [Open ourselves to God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/07/open-ourselves-to-god/) - In "Open ourselves to God's presence," Michael John Cusick underscores that imagination serves as the key to opening ourselves to God's presence.
- [The silent poetry of joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/05/the-silent-poetry-of-joy/) - In "The silent poetry of joy," Michael John Cusick talks about the silent poetry that's embodied when love has you. You experience intimacy with God.
- [Knowing and relating to God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/04/knowing-and-relating-to-god/) - In "Knowing and relating to God" Michael John Cusick stress that we need the willingness to be vulnerable in knowing and relating to God.
- [Our human attempts to know God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/03/our-human-attempts-to-know-god/) - In "Our human attempts to know God," Michael John Cusick says our human attempts to know God pivot on a paradox - we lost the forest for the trees.
- [Spiritual breathing for the soul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/02/spiritual-breathing-for-the-soul/) - In "Spiritual breathing for the soul," Michael John Cusick describes mysticism as spiritual breathing for the soul. Essential for the health of our spirits.
- [Loss that feels like death](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2026/01/01/loss-that-feels-like-death/) - In "Loss that feels like death," Michael John Cusick asserts we can't be fully reborn in the resurrection until we face the loss that feels like death.
- [Shame cuts to the heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/31/shame-cuts-to-the-heart/) - In "Shame cuts to the heart," Michael John Cusick counsels that while guilt relates to what we do, shame cuts to the heart of how we see ourselves and God.
- [A dynamic process - holiness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/30/a-dynamic-process-holiness/) - In "A dynamic process - holiness," Michael John Cusick underscores that holiness is a dynamic process requiring action, movement, and growth.
- [A fresh understanding of holiness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/29/a-fresh-understanding-of-holiness/) - In "Holiness - a fresh understanding," Michael John Cusick underscores our need for a fresh understanding of holiness - the essence of the gospel.
- [Spiritual gravity or spinning in place](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/28/spiritual-gravity-or-spinning-in-place/) - In Spiritual gravity or spinning in place." Michael John Cusick underscores that God's holiness is the center of spiritual gravity pulling us closer.
- [Medicine stronger than our afflictions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/27/medicine-stronger-than-our-afflictions/) - In "Medicine stronger than our afflictions," Michael John Cusick cites the Ambrosian rites, which say God gives us medicine stronger than our afflictions.
- [The landing pad for warfare](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/26/the-landing-pad-for-warfare/) - In "The landing pad for warfare, " Michael John Cusick asserts that our unhealed woundedness becomes the landing pad for warfare.
- [A heavy burden of emotional junk](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/23/a-heavy-burden-of-emotional-junk/) - In "A heavy burden of emotional junk," Michael John Cusick cites Thomas Keating, who observes that most of us have a heavy burden of emotional junk.
- [Embodiment = tension of both-and](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/22/embodiment-tension-of-both-and/) - in "Embodiment = tension of both-and" Michael John Keating underscores that embodiment holds all aspects within the tension of both-and.
- [Unfounded vs. realistic expectations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/21/unfounded-vs-realistic-expectations/) - In "Unfounded vs. realistic expectations," Chip Ingram contrasts two types of expectations, unfounded and realistic. Often a fine line exists between them.
- [Unnumbered comforts to my soul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/20/unnumbered-comforts-to-my-soul/) - "Unnumbered comforts to my soul" is the October Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "When All Thy Mercies".
- [Viewing perfection all wrong?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/21/viewing-perfection-all-wrong/) - In "Viewing perfection all wrong?" Michael John Cusick posits that we've been viewing perfection all wrong. That it involves an integrated sense of wholeness.
- [Microscope versus celestial telescope](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/20/microscope-versus-celestial-telescope/) - In "Microscope versus celestial telescope," Michael John Cusick asserts that we need study the expansiveness of how God made us through a celestial telescope.
- [Settle for fantasy, suffer for reality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/19/settle-for-fantasy-suffer-for-reality/) - In "Settle for fantasy, suffer for reality" Michael John Cusick underscores our longing to settle for fantasy rather than suffer for reality.
- [Unintentionally test God?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/17/unintentionally-test-god/) - In "Unintentionally test God?" Michael John Cusick says we sometimes unintentionally test God rather than trust Him with our safety and security.
- [Fully holy and fully whole](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/18/fully-holy-fully-whole/) - In "Fully holy and fully whole' Michael John Cusick stresses that we cannot be fully whole until we are fully holy. Truth is not a proposition.
- [A God who beholds us](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/16/a-god-who-beholds-us/) - In "A God who beholds us," Michael John Cusick encourages that we can rest and trust in a God who beholds us and loves us perfectly and unconditionally.
- [Your pursuit of a faith worth having](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/14/your-pursuit-of-a-faith-worth-having/) - In 'Your pursuit of a faith worth having," Michael John Cusick underscores that attachments matter in your pursuit of a faith worth having.
- [The relative health of our attachment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/13/the-relative-health-of-our-attachment/) - In "The relative health of our attachment," Michael John Cusick stresses that the relative health of our attachment carries far-reaching implications.
- [Past conditioning or present choosing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/12/past-conditioning-or-present-choosing/) - In "Past conditioning or present choosing," Michael John Cusick stresses that the way we relate results more from past conditioning than present choosing.
- [New adventure - take the risk](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/11/new-adventure-take-the-risk/) - In 'New adventure - take the risk," Michael John Cusick exhorts us to move away from our relational base and take the risk of new adventure.
- [The human soul's mosaic nature](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2018/08/28/the-human-souls-mosaic-nature/) - In "The human soul's mosaic nature," Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller discuss managers, firefighters, and a 3d part of the soul - exiles.
- [Poisonous rocks of resentment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2016/03/18/poisonous-rocks-resentment/) - In "Poisonous rocks of resentment," June Hunt writes that "there is a remedy for the poisonous rocks of resentment in our lives."
- [The confluence of two entities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/10/the-confluence-of-two-entities/) - In "The confluence of two entities," Michael John Cusick says that delta can also refer to the confluence of two entities.
- [Delta variable - the gap](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/09/delta-variable-the-gap/) - In "Delta variable - the gap," Michael John Cusick defines the delta variable as the gap or space between the starting point and the outcome.
- [God's own heartbeat - a rhythm](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/08/gods-own-heartbeat-a-rhythm/) - In "God's own heartbeat - a rhythm." Michael John Cusick states our transformation synchronizes with a rhythm he calls God's own heartbeat.
- [Held in loving connection](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/07/held-in-loving-connection/) - In "Held in loving connection," Michael John Cusick talks about an invitation to be held in loving connection. Where you're seen, soothed, safe, and secure.
- [Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/06/tame-your-thoughts-three-tools/) - "Tame Your Thoughts: Three Tools . . ." by Max Lucado is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's Annotated Bibliography.
- [Healthy thinking = selective thinking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/05/healthy-thinking-selective-thinking/) - In "Healthy thinking = selective thinking," Max Lucado says we must not heed the outright lies of Satan. Because healthy thinking is selective thinking.
- [A grander vision for your future](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/04/a-grander-vision-for-your-future/) - In "A grander vision for your future.," Max Lucado underscores that God has a grander vision for your future than you do.
- [No friend to grace - the world](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/03/no-friend-to-grace-the-world/) - In "No friend to grace - the world," Max Lucado cites Charles Spurgeon, who once asserted that the world is no friend to grace.
- [Quit striving and start trusting](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/02/quit-striving-and-start-trusting/) - In "Quit striving and start trusting," Max Lucado exhorts us to quit striving and start trusting. Salvation insecurity is a toxic thought.
- [Our roller coaster of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/12/01/our-roller-coaster-of-faith/) - In "Our roller coaster of faith," Max Lucado states that God underscores our lives with grace as He draws a line under our roller coaster of faith.
- [Grip God's sovereignty](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/30/grip-gods-sovereignty/) - In "Grip God's sovereignty," Max Lucado exhorts us to follow Job's example and grip God's sovereignty. Above all, never let it go.
- [Unacquainted with a pure heart: Satan](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/29/unacquainted-with-a-pure-heart-satan/) - In "Unacquainted with a pure heart: Satan." Max Lucado asserts that Satan expects ulterior motives because he is unacquainted with a pure heart.
- [Disappointment with God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/28/disappointment-with-god/) - In "Disappointment with God," Max Lucado underscores that no area demands our vigilance more than disappointment with God.
- [Load your sling and let it fly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/27/load-your-sling-and-let-it-fly/) - In "Load your sling and let it fly," Max Lucado urges us to put 1 Samuel 17:47 into your stone pouch. Then load your sling and let it fly!
- [Giant-sized challenges](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/26/giant-sized-challenges/) - In "Giant-sized challenges," Max Lucado underscores that bigger biceps don't win giant-sized challenges. Rather, we need better thought management.
- [Contingent joy < courageous joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/25/contingent-joy-courageous-joy/) - In "Contingent joy < courageous joy," Max Lucado exhorts us to ask God to help us replace our contingent joy with courageous joy.
- [Always remains an option - joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/24/always-remains-an-option-joy/) - In "Always remains an option - joy," Max Lucado underscores that even though finding joy might take a long time, joy always remains an option.
- [Thought Extraction 101](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/23/thought-extraction-101/) - In "Thought Extraction 101," Max Lucado exhorts us not to go slack in the discipline of guarding our minds. This is Thought Extraction 101.
- [Left adrift on the Atlantic?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/22/left-adrift-on-the-atlantic/) - In "Left adrift on the Atlantic of despair?" Max Lucado underscores that will not let us be left adrift on the Atlantic of despair.
- [Where'd my giggle go?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/21/whered-my-giggle-go/) - In "Where'd my giggle go?" Max Lucado asks the title question from his children's book, Where'd my giggle go? He couldn't find it anywhere.
- [A guilty thought - don't think it](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/20/a-guilty-thought-dont-think-it/) - In "A guilty thought - don't think it," Max Lucado underscores that just because you have a guilty thought, you don't have to think it.
- [Trimming the stick?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/19/trimming-the-stick/) - In "Trimming the stick?" Max Lucado cautions that trimming the stick won't work when it comes to pleasing God. Yet we're prone to tamper with God's yardstick.
- [Muhammad Ali of emotions - guilt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/18/muhammad-ali-of-emotions-guilt/) - In "Muhammad Ali of emotions - guilt," Max Lucado identifies guilt as the Muhammad Ali of emotions. It comes at us with the left hook of denial.
- [Practice Picky Thinking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/16/practice-picky-thinking/) - In "Practice Picky Thinking," Max Lucado encourages us to practice picky thinking when we are tempted to grumble. Choose gratitude.
- [Kneeling knees never knock](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/15/kneeling-knees-never-knock/) - In "Kneeling knees never knock," Max Lucado stresses that kneeling knees never knock. Because the more you pray, the more you find peace.
- [Grab the weed of anxiety](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/14/grab-the-weed-of-anxiety/) - In "Grab the weed of anxiety," Max Lucado exhorts us to grab the weed of anxiety and give it a quick yank. Refuse to indulge anxious, negative thoughts.
- [Calm the child vs. calm the storm](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/13/calm-the-child-vs-calm-the-storm/) - In "Calm the child vs. calm the storm," Max Lucado observes that while sometimes God will calm the storm, at other times He chooses to calm the child.
- [Vitamin C for the inner person](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/12/vitamin-c-for-the-inner-person/) - In "Vitamin C for the inner person," Max Lucado underscores that ingested Scripture is vitamin C for the inner person. Don't treat Scripture as a guest.
- [Toxic thoughts = grass burrs](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/10/toxic-thoughts-grass-burrs/) - in "Toxic thoughts = grass burrs," Max Lucado compares toxic thoughts to grass burrs. Unless you treat the lies of hell with the words of heaven, burrs return.
- [Made to walk with God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/22/made-to-walk-with-god/) - "Made to walk with God" is the September Short Meditation from Crown and includes Babethandaza (tr. We were walking), a traditional South African worship song.
- [The answer to our problems - a person](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/17/the-answer-to-our-problems-a-person/) - In "The answer to our problems - a person," Chip Ingram relates what someone once told him. That the answer to our problems is a person, not a solution
- [Headed for disaster?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/19/headed-for-disaster/) - In "Headed for disaster?" Chip Ingram cautions that your life and dreams are headed for disaster if you fail to place your hope in Christ.
- [Presence comes before language](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/06/presence-comes-before-language/) - In "Presence comes before language," Jason Hague stresses that presence comes before language. Presence is the essence of prayer.
- [The version of you God wants to create](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/08/the-version-of-you-god-wants-to-create/) - In "The version of you God wants to create," Max Lucado underscores that with the version of you God wants to create, he gives power to cast down strongholds.
- [Christlikeness 101](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/09/christlikeness-101/) - In "Christlikeness 101," Max Lucado stresses the Jesus' thoughts can enlighten and influence ours. He's enrolled us in Christlikeness 101.
- [Babbling to an infinite Creator](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/05/babbling-to-an-infinite-creator/) - In "Babbling to an infinite Creator," Catherine McNiel states that our most eloquent prayers aren't much more than babbling to an infinite Creator.
- [Satan traffics in untruths](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/07/satan-traffics-in-untruths/) - In "Satan traffics in untruths," Max Lucado stresses that Satan traffics in untruth. And if untruth is fentanyl, he's the dealer.
- [A rotten chess player - Satan](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/06/a-rotten-chess-player-satan/) - In "A rotten chess player - Satan," Max Lucado stresses that while the devil is indeed potent, in reality he's a rotten chess player.
- [Monitor your default thoughts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/05/monitor-your-default-thoughts/) - In "Monitor your default thoughts," Max Lucado recommends that your first start with this exercise: monitor your default thoughts.
- [The air traffic controller - you](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/04/the-air-traffic-controller-you/) - In "The air traffic controller - you," Max Lucado underscores your ability to be the air traffic controller of your mental airport.
- [The epicenter of truth?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/30/the-epicenter-of-truth/) - In "The epicenter of truth?" Jason Hague underscores that the place of your abuse does not function as the epicenter of truth.
- [Discipleship = Christlike thinking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/03/discipleship-christlike-thinking/) - In "Discipleship = Christlike thinking," Max Lucado underscores that, at its core, discipleship is Christlike thinking. What would Jesus think?
- [Strongholds that have a strong hold](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/02/strongholds-that-have-a-strong-hold/) - In "Strongholds that have a strong hold," Max Lucado stresses the importance of dealing with the strongholds that have a strong hold on you life.
- [With God as your helper](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/11/01/with-god-as-your-helper/) - In "With God as your helper," Max Lucado underscores that with God as your helper, you'll discover a new way of thinking. A new you will emerge.
- [This battle of the mind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/31/this-battle-of-the-mind-2/) - In "The battle of the mind," Max Lucado underscores that God has not left us alone in this battle of the mind. Because He loves us too much.
- [Unhealthy thoughts web](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/30/unhealthy-thoughts-web/) - In "Unhealthy thoughts web," Max Lucado sees Satan's one primary aim as entangling us in a web of unhealthy thoughts. To create a false system.
- [Beyond the farthest mortal eye](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/18/beyond-the-farthest-mortal-eye/) - "Beyond the farthest mortal eye" is the August Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Angel Voices, Ever Singing,"
- [The power of focus - in principle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/19/the-power-of-focus-in-principle/) - In "The power of focus - in principle," Chip Ingram notes that the apostle Paul teaches us about focus in his Letter to the Philippians.
- [The lens of God's goodness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/21/the-lens-of-gods-goodness/) - In "The lens of God's goodness," Chip Ingram says it's a higher perspective to look at your circumstances through the lens of God's goodness.
- [Inner chatter, internal narrator](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/29/inner-chatter-internal-narrator/) - In "Inner chatter, internal narrator" Max Lucado talks about what happens when we wake up and refuse to silence the inner chatter, our internal narrator.
- [I Choose Joy: Change . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/28/i-choose-joy-change/) - "I Choose Joy: Change Your Perspective, Change Your Life" by Chip Ingram is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's Annotated Bibliography.
- [Persecution as a privilege?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/26/persecution-as-a-privilege/) - in "Persecution as a privilege?" Chip Ingram stresses that most of us in relatively free societies haven't learned to see persecution as a privilege.
- [Accomplish His good in a fallen world](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/27/accomplish-his-good-in-a-fallen-world/) - In "Accomplish His good in a fallen world," Chip Ingram describes suffering as God's gift to accomplish His good in a fallen world.
- [Joy and suffering - incompatible?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/25/joy-and-suffering-incompatible/) - In "Joy and suffering - incompatible?" Chip Ingram underscores that the Bible makes it very clear that joy and suffering are not incompatible.
- [Live like Christians boldly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/24/live-like-christians-boldly/) - In "Live like Christians boldly," Chip Ingram asserts that it isn't enough for people to know we're Christians. God wants us to live like Christians boldly.
- [Stuck in our issues?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/23/stuck-in-our-issues/) - In "Stuck in our issues?" Chip Ingram says that while Jesus welcomes us to come as we are. He refuses to leave us stuck in our issues
- [Even when it's hard, lean in](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/22/even-when-its-hard-lean-in/) - In "Even when it's hard, lean in" Chip Ingram exhorts us not to give up. Even when it's hard, we need to lean into God and tap into His power.
- [Our vantage point - unseen realities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/18/our-vantage-point-unseen-realities/) - In "Our vantage point - unseen realities," Chip Ingram stresses that when our vantage point is based on unseen realities, we can believe with hope.
- [False beliefs about God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/16/false-beliefs-about-god/) - In "False beliefs about God," Chip Ingram cautions that sometimes our false beliefs about God can become idols. Just like secular things
- [The infinite line of eternity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/15/the-infinite-line-of-eternity/) - In "The infinite line of eternity," Chip Ingram says God always urges us to lift our eyes toward the infinite line of eternity.
- [Brownie points - spiritual practices?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/14/brownie-points-spiritual-practices/) - In "Brownie points - spiritual practices?" Chip Ingram stresses that we don't get brownie points for any of our spiritual practices.
- [A shot in the dark - prayer?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/13/a-shot-in-the-dark-prayer/) - In "A shot in the dark - prayer?" Chip Ingram underscores that the apostle Paul didn't see prayer as a shot in the dark.
- [The oxygen of the soul = hope](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/12/the-oxygen-of-the-soul-hope/) - in "The oxygen of the soul = hope," Chip Ingram describes hope as the oxygen of the soul. Because if you go too long without hope, you die
- [Authentic hope = right perspective](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/11/authentic-hope-right-perspective/) - In "Authentic hope = right perspective," Chip Ingram stresses you can only have authentic hope when you get the right perspective on your circumstances.
- [The author of our difficulties?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/10/the-author-of-our-difficulties/) - In "The author of our difficulties," Chip Ingram underscores that God is not the author of our difficulties, because we live in a fallen world.
- [Our rights vs. other people's welfare](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/09/our-rights-vs-other-peoples-welfare/) - In "Our rights vs. other people's welfare." Chip Ingram says society conditions us to focus more on our rights than other people's welfare.
- [An ambassador of Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/08/an-ambassador-of-christ/) - In "An ambassador of Christ," Chip Ingram describes the believer as an ambassador of Christ and a messenger of the gospel.
- [Devalue the message of the gospel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/07/devalue-the-message-of-the-gospel/) - In "Devalue the message of the gospel," Chip Ingram says when we become so familiar with the gospel, we must be careful not to devalue the message.
- [Deeper level of character, faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/06/deeper-level-of-character-faith/) - In "Deeper level of character, faith" Chip Ingram counsels that the mission God's calling you to may require a deeper level of character and faith.
- [Thought diet - nourish your mind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/06/thought-diet-nourish-your-mind/) - In "Thought diet - nourish your mind," Kyle Idleman wonders what would happen if we went on a thought diet to nourish our minds with healthier thinking.
- [When roots grow deep](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/05/when-roots-grow-deep/) - In "When roots grow deep," Chip Ingram says that almost everyone with a deep relationship with God goes through adversity. That's when roots grow deep.
- [Clarifying the body of Christ's focus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/04/clarifying-the-body-of-christs-focus/) - In "Clarifying the body of Christ's focus," Chip Ingram underscores that adversity often strengthens the body of Chris's resolve by clarifying their focus.
- [The ups and downs in life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/02/the-ups-and-downs-in-life/) - In "The ups and downs in life." Chip Ingram exhorts us to ask this question as we look at the ups and downs in life: What is my purpose?
- [An attitude of hope and joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/03/an-attitude-of-hope-and-joy/) - In "An attitude of hope and joy," Chip Ingram says that God's promises become clear if your respond to your pain with an attitude of joy and hope.
- [The zigzag journey of God's people](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/10/01/the-zigzag-journey-of-gods-people/) - In "The zigzag journey of God's people," Chip Ingram says the straight line between point A and point B doesn't represent the zigzag journey of God's people.
- [Take perspective out of the equation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/30/take-perspective-out-of-the-equation/) - In "Take perspective out of the equation," Chip Ingram counsels against taking perspective out of the equation. Perspective is vital.
- [Focus always follows affections](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/29/focus-always-follows-affections/) - In "Focus always follows affections," Chip Ingram underscores that our focus always follows our affections. Our focus reveals our true affections.
- [Deep and lasting joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/28/deep-and-lasting-joy/) - In "Deep and lasting joy," Chip Ingram states that deep and lasting joy goes much deeper than the up and down emotions we experience moment by moment.
- [Our feelings always follow our focus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/27/our-feelings-always-follow-our-focus/) - In "Our feelings always follow our focus," Chip Ingram stresses that our feelings always follow our focus. We choose our focus regardless of our feelings.
- [Praying with joy - feel like it?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/26/praying-with-joy-feel-like-it/) - In "Praying with joy - feel like it?" Chip Ingram states that we need to pray to develop an upward focus. And whenever we can, that means praying with joy.
- [Good habits versus bad habits](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/25/good-habits-versus-bad-habits/) - In "Good habits versus bad habits," Chip Ingram stresses that good habits are hard to develop, while bad habits are hard to break.
- [Embrace the higher vision](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/24/embrace-the-higher-vision/) - In "Embrace the higher vision," Chip Ingram underscores that we can choose to lift our eyes and embrace the higher vision.
- [Upward focus or inward focus?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/23/upward-focus-or-inward-focus/) - in "Upward focus or inward focus?" Chip Ingram notes that the apostle Paul maintained an upward focus despite his current circumstances.
- [The Divine Equation: C + P = E](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/20/the-divine-equation-c-p-e/) - In "The Divine Equation: C + P = E," Chip Ingram underscores that the Divine Equation is critical to a life of joy. Learn to live above your circumstances.
- [Splitting hairs: happiness vs. joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/18/splitting-hairs-happiness-vs-joy/) - In "Splitting hairs: happiness vs. joy," Chip Ingram asserts that it's not splitting hairs when you talk about happiness versus joy.
- [Safely to arrive at home](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/21/safely-to-arrive-at-home/) - "Safely to arrive at home" is the July Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the selection "Gloria" by The Choral Project.
- [Mid-Faith Crisis: Finding a Path . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/17/mid-faith-crisis-finding-a-path/) - "Mid-Faith Crisis: Finding a Path . . ." by Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's Annotated Bibliography.
- [Sit at the table of Conscious Faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/16/sit-at-the-table-of-conscious-faith/) - Ini "Sit at the table of Conscious Faith," Jason Hague observes that many of the people who survived decades of crisis now sit at the table of Conscious Faith.
- [Smokescreen or mirage - greatness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/15/smokescreen-or-mirage-greatness/) - in "Smokescreen or mirage - greatness," Catherine McNiel describes greatness as a mirage, an all-too-often smokescreen for something truly empty or toxic.
- [Free download: fruits of the Spirit?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/14/free-download-fruits-of-the-spirit/) - In "Free download: fruits of the Spirit?" Jason Hague stresses that many of us believe that the fruits of the Spirit come as a free download.
- [Standing strong against the tides](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/13/standing-strong-against-the-tides/) - in "Standing strong against the tides," Catherine McNiel encourages us to let go and release rather than standing strong against the tides.
- [Lights lighting the dark road](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/12/lights-lighting-the-dark-road/) - In "Lights lighting the dark road," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague view emotional and spiritual stress as lights lighting the road in the darkness.
- [The challenge before us](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/14/the-challenge-before-us/) - In "The challenge before us," Kyle Idleman underscores that while the challenge before us is great, so it the promise.
- [Soul-level exhaustion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/17/soul-level-exhaustion/) - in "Soul-level exhaustion," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague underscore what happens when wounds and doubts are compounded by soul-level exhaustion.
- [One-way ticket to the mountaintop?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/11/one-way-ticket-to-the-mountaintop/) - In "One-way ticket to the mountaintop? Catherine McNiel stresses that it's never been true that following God is a one-way ticket to the mountaintop.
- [Knowledgeable experts about God?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/10/knowledgeable-experts-about-god/) - In "Knowledgeable experts about God?" Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague stress that Jesus tended to avoid self-titled knowledgeable experts about God.
- [Our best chance of surviving it all](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/09/our-best-chance-of-surviving-it-all/) - In "Our best chance of surviving it all," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague state that honest lament provides our best chance of surviving it all.
- [Catapulting our catastrophes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/08/catapulting-our-catastrophes/) - In "Catapulting our catastrophes," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague state that we haven't been taught about catapulting our catastrophes back to God.
- [The platform of influence?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/02/the-platform-of-influence/) - In "The platform of influence?" Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague urge us to seek the witness of people on the margins of society, not the platform of influence.
- [How It Started vs. How It's Going](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/16/how-it-started-vs-how-its-going/) - In "How It Started vs. How It's Going," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague wonder what our faith would look like in a How It Started vs. How It's Going meme.
- [Rehearsing our disappointments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/11/rehearsing-our-disappointments/) - In "Rehearsing our disappointments," Kyle Idleman cautions that a bitter root develops when we keep rehearsing our disappointments.
- [Speak God's word over your life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/08/speak-gods-word-over-your-life/) - In "Speak God's word over your life," Kyle Idleman encourages you to speak God's word over your life, not speak your words to yourself.
- [Lens of fear vs. lens of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/05/lens-of-fear-vs-lens-of-faith/) - In "Lens of fear vs, lens of faith," Kyle Idleman notices that the lens of fear is a close-up lens. But the lens of faith is a wide-angle lens.
- [Exaggerate the struggles we face](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/04/exaggerate-the-struggles-we-face/) - In "Exaggerate the struggles we face." Kyle Idleman says we exaggerate the struggles we face when we fail to take our thoughts captive
- [This battle of the mind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/02/this-battle-of-the-mind/) - In "This battle of the mind," Kyle Idleman underscores that, in this battle of the mind, we must never think that we're all lone.
- [Give God a list of all concerns?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/30/give-god-a-list-of-all-concerns/) - In "Give God a list of all concerns?" Kyle Idleman counsels us to be careful to do more than just give God a list of all our concerns.
- [Invite God into your despair](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/29/invite-god-into-your-despair/) - In "Invite God into your despair," Kyle Idleman encourages that, whatever your method of dealing with despair, choose instead to invite God into it.
- [Pray specifically, not generically](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/28/pray-specifically-not-generically/) - In "Pray specifically, not generically," Kyle Idleman notes that in desperation we may find ourselves praying generically. But we need to pray specifically.
- [A prisoner of pleasure](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/27/a-prisoner-of-pleasure/) - In "A prisoner of pleasure," Kyle Idleman stresses that our thought pattern can make us a prisoner of pleasure. Chains from which we cannot break free.
- [Happy people chase after God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/25/happy-people-chase-after-god/) - In "Happy people chase after God," Kyle Idleman stresses that happy people don't chase after happiness. Instead, they chase after God.
- [Most dangerous thoughts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/23/most-dangerous-thoughts/) - In "Most dangerous thoughts," Kyle Idleman stresses that one of the most dangerous thoughts we can have is that we don't need God's help
- [Being right or being righteous?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/22/being-right-or-being-righteous/) - In "Being right or being righteous?" Kyle Idleman counsels that sometimes we need to choose between being right and being righteous
- [A small seed of offense](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/20/a-small-seed-of-offense/) - In "A small seed of offense," Kyle Idleman underscores that a small seed of offense has a way of growing into bitterness.
- [The snowball of offense](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/19/the-snowball-of-offense/) - In "The snowball of offense," Kyle Idleman underscores that as our thoughts dwell on offense, the snowball of offense rolls down the hill of life.
- [Defy the pattern of distraction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/18/defy-the-pattern-of-distraction/) - In "Defy the pattern of distraction," Kyle Idleman underscores that it takes commitment to defy the pattern of distraction.
- [Digital dopamine distractions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/16/digital-dopamine-distractions/) - Ini "Digital dopamine distractions," Kyle Idleman underscores that all of these digital dopamine distractions are rewiring our brains.
- [External input vs. internal reflection](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/15/external-input-vs-internal-reflection/) - In "External input vs. internal reflection," Kyle Idleman stresses that the more internal input we receive, the less internal reflection takes place
- [Excessive caring, constant comparing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/13/excessive-caring-constant-comparing/) - In "Excessive caring, constant comparing" Kyle Idleman says we capitulate to negative thoughts through our excessive caring and constant comparing.
- [The pattern of insecurity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/12/the-pattern-of-insecurity/) - In "The pattern of insecurity," Kyle Idleman says that the pattern of insecurity typically begins with excessive concern about others' opinions.
- [Isolated events - our thoughts?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/11/isolated-events-our-thoughts/) - In "Isolated events - our thoughts?" Kyle Idleman underscores that the thoughts we think are not isolated events. They create intricate neural pathways.
- [Academic thought experiment: suffering](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/07/academic-thought-experiment-suffering/) - In "Academic thought experiment: suffering," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague say if we see pain as an aberration, it can be an academic thought experiment.
- [Unanswered prayer piles up](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/04/unanswered-prayer-piles-up/) - in "Unanswered prayer piles up," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague talk about what happens once that pile of unanswered prayer gets high enough.
- [Santa Claus or distant parent?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/03/santa-claus-or-distant-parent/) - In "Santa Claus or distant parent?" Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague state that, as kids, we viewed God as something between a distant parent and Santa Claus.
- [The dusty footprints of Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/09/01/the-dusty-footprints-of-christ/) - In "The dusty footprints of Christ," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague wonder how willing people are to follow the dusty footprints of Christ.
- [Saints into cynics?"](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/31/saints-into-cynics/) - In "Saints into cynics?" Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague assert that church betrayal is uniquely suited to turn saints into cynics.
- [An invitation to beauty and truth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/29/an-invitation-to-beauty-and-truth/) - In "An invitation to beauty and truth, "Catherine McNiel observes that holding no illusions gives her a degree of freedom and an invitation to beauty and trust.
- [Jesus sits outside with you](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/28/jesus-sits-outside-with-you/) - In "Jesus sits outside with you," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague underscore that if you've been hurt by your faith community, Jesus sits outside with you.
- [The real gatekeepers?  Not!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/27/the-real-gatekeepers-not/) - In "The real gatekeepers? Not!" Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague stress that the ones who hurt you aren't the real gatekeepers. Only Jesus holds the keys.
- [Christlikeness or power play?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/26/christlikeness-or-power-play/) - in "Christlikeness or power play?" Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague note the temptation to turn our churches into a power play rather than Christlikeness.
- [No path named Certainty](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/25/no-path-named-certainty/) - In "No path named Certainty," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague stress that because there is no path named Certainty, we choose the one named faith.
- [Certainty - the opposite of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/24/certainty-the-opposite-of-faith/) - in "Certainty - the opposite of faith," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague cite Annie Lamott, Annie asserts that certainty, not doubt, is the opposite of faith
- [A rock-solid formula or trust?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/23/a-rock-solid-formula-or-trust/) - In "A rock-solid formula or trust?" Jason Hague underscores that God invites us to something better than a rock-solid formula - trust.
- [Sureness vs. faith - the same thing?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/22/sureness-vs-faith-the-same-thing/) - In "Sureness vs. faith - same thing?" Jason Hague acknowledges that he encountered a problem when he equated sureness with faith.
- [Put Pandora back in her box?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/21/put-pandora-back-in-her-box/) - In "Put Pandora back in her box?" Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague stress that there's no way to reset the clock or put Pandora back in her box.
- [Bright morning stars are rising](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/23/bright-morning-stars-are-rising/) - "Bright morning stars are rising" is the June Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion Ministries and features the titled Appalachian spiritual.
- [The Confident Faith Stage](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/20/the-confident-faith-stage/) - In "The Confident Faith Stage," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague observe that most Christian institutions are built with the confident faith stage in mind.
- [Human faith development cycles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/19/human-faith-development-cycles/) - In "Human faith development cycles," Catherine McNiel and Jason Hague underscore that there are natural, predictable cycles in human faith development.
- [Every Thought Captive: Calm . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/15/every-thought-captive-calm/) - "Every Thought Captive: Calm . . ." by Kyle Idleman is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' annotated bibliography.
- [Pouring our lives out on the altar](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/13/pouring-our-lives-out-on-the-altar/) - In "Pouring our lives out on the altar," Kyle Idleman underscores that all of us are pouring our lives out on the altar of something
- [The top button on a dress shirt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/12/the-top-button-on-a-dress-shirt/) - In "The top button on a dress shirt," Kyle Idleman compares thinking about eternity to the top button on a dress shirt
- [Pretty comfortable blaming God?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/10/pretty-comfortable-blaming-god/) - In "Pretty comfortable blaming God?" Kyle Idleman underscores that a lot of people are pretty comfortable blaming God when life gets difficult.
- [Starting our day - set the course](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/09/starting-our-day-set-the-course/) - In "Starting our day - set the course," Kyle Idleman encourages us in starting our day by intentionally taking our thoughts captive.
- [A chain saw clearing out pathways](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/07/a-chain-saw-clearing-out-pathways/) - In "A chain saw clearing out pathways," Kyle Idleman compares the thoughts we say with words to a chain saw clearing out neural pathways in the brain
- [Subconscious assumptions = perspective](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/03/subconscious-assumptions-perspective/) - In "Subconscious assumptions = perspective," Kyle Idleman stresses that we make all kinds of subconscious assumptions when we think about something.
- [Reshaping your brain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/08/01/reshaping-your-brain/) - In "Reshaping your brain," Kyle Idleman stresses that the more you engage in reshaping your brain, it becomes easier to capture your thoughts.
- [A journey of cooperation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/31/a-journey-of-cooperation/) - In '"A journey of cooperation," Kyle Idleman describes the path to transformation as a journey of cooperation with the Holy Spirit
- [Immediate pleasure and happiness?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/26/immediate-pleasure-and-happiness/) - In "Immediate pleasure and happiness?" Kyle Idleman underscores the consequences of thinking immediate pleasures is what God wants most for our lives.
- [The anger iceberg - what we cannot see](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/24/the-anger-iceberg-what-we-cannot-see/) - In "The anger iceberg - what we cannot see," Kyle Idleman cites psychologist Kyle Benson, who calls anger out of proportion to the situation the anger iceberg.
- [Mindfulness vs. mindlessness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/20/mindfulness-vs-mindlessness/) - In "Mindfulness vs. mindlessness," John Ortberg underscores that people sometimes mistake mindfulness for a mood or a state of mind.
- [God hides himself, wants to be found](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/22/god-hides-himself-wants-to-be-found/) - In "God hides himself, wants to be found" John Ortberg suggests that perhaps God hides himself in order to give us freedom.
- [Spiritual oblivion - insidious](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/17/spiritual-oblivion-insidious/) - In Spiritual oblivion - insidious," Kyle Idleman considers spiritual oblivion as perhaps the most insidious cost of being distracted.
- [Breaking the insecurity loop](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/14/breaking-the-insecurity-loop/) - In "Breaking the insecurity loop," Kyle Idleman stresses that breaking the insecurity loop is about tuning our ears to hear the voice of our heavenly Father.
- [A fountain ever springing!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/19/a-fountain-ever-springing/) - "A fountain ever springing!" is the May Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "How Can I Keep from Singing?"
- [Seeds get planted and slowly grow](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/10/seeds-get-planted-and-slowly-grow/) - In "Seeds get planted and slowly grow," Kyle Idleman stresses that seeds get planted and slowly grow into thoughts bearing fruit in our lives.
- [What our hearts hear the most](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/09/what-our-hearts-hear-the-most/) - In "What our hearts hear the most," Kyle Idleman asserts that the words that come out of our mouths is what our hearts hear the most.
- [Go full Fort Knox on our lebs](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/08/go-full-fort-knox-on-our-lebs/) - In "Go full Fort Knox on our lebs," Kyle Idleman stresses that King Solomon implores us to go full Fort Knox on our lebs, to guard our hearts
- [The best available option?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/07/the-best-available-option/) - In "The best available option?" Kyle Idleman states that in crisis situations we tend to grab at what seems to be the best available option.
- [Carefully take aim!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/06/carefully-take-aim/) - In "Carefully take aim!" Kyle Idleman notes that we must carefully take aim to control where we set our thoughts, even though we can't always control outcomes.
- [The stronghold must fall!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/05/the-stronghold-must-fall/) - In "The stronghold must fall!" Kyle Idleman underscores that if we want to change our lives, the stronghold must fall. We must do more than address our habits.
- [Set of blueprints for a stronghold?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/04/set-of-blueprints-for-a-stronghold/) - In "Set of blueprints for a stronghold?" Kyle Idleman acknowledges that no one takes out a set of blueprints for a stronghold in their lives.
- [Strongholds - lies we believe](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/03/strongholds-lies-we-believe/) - In "Strongholds - lies we believe," Kyle Idleman defines strongholds as lies we believe, thoughts that have taken us captive.
- [Everyone conforms to something](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/02/everyone-conforms-to-something/) - In "Everyone conforms to something," Kyle Idleman asserts that we like to think of ourselves as nonconformists, but everyone conforms to something.
- [The Fellowship of the Withered Hand](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/05/the-fellowship-of-the-withered-hand/) - In "The Fellowship of the Withered Hand," John Ortberg describes the Fellowship of the Withered Hand as a community of broken people.
- [Filling in gaps constantly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/07/01/filling-in-gaps-constantly/) - in "Filling in gaps constantly," Kyle Idleman observes that with our thoughts, we're constantly filling in gaps - presume the worst or assume the best.
- [Thinking the way we've been thinking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/30/thinking-the-way-weve-been-thinking/) - In "Thinking the way we've been thinking," Kyle Idleman says when we're thinking the way we've been thinking for a long time, it becomes ingrained.
- [Squeeze us into the world's mold?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/29/squeeze-us-into-the-worlds-mold/) - In "Squeeze us into the world's mold?" Kyle Idleman cautions that the world is constantly trying to squeeze us into its mold.
- [Consumers rather than producers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/28/consumers-rather-than-producers/) - In" Consumers rather than producers," Kyle Idleman underscores that part of our problem is that we've allowed our minds to be consumers rather than producers.
- [Take your thoughts captive](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/27/take-your-thoughts-captive/) - In "Take your thoughts captive," Kyle Idleman underscores that either you will take your thoughts captive or, conversely, your thoughts will take you captive.
- [Steps: A Guide to Transforming . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/26/steps-a-guide-to-transforming/) - "Steps: A Guide to Transforming Life When Willpower Isn't Enough" by John Ortberg is the latest addition to Crown's Annotated Bibliography.
- [Constant work - worth the effort!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/25/constant-work-worth-the-effort/) - In "Constant work - worth the effort!" John Ortberg that despite the pain and uncertainty in life, constant work is worth the effort.
- [Playing Dr. God: pathological altruism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/24/playing-dr-god-pathological-altruism/) - In "Playing Dr. God: pathological altruism," John Ortberg describes pathological altruism as one more sneaky way of playing Dr. God.
- [Throne of Brains and Personality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/21/throne-of-brains-and-personality/) - In "Throne of Brains and Personality," John Ortberg underscores that we approach the throne of grace, not the Throne of Brains and Personality
- [The only place we can find God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/19/the-only-place-we-can-find-god/) - In "The only place we can find God," John Ortberg says that the only place we can find God is in the moment. We live at the intersection of past and future.
- [The station of contrition](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/17/the-station-of-contrition/) - In "The station of contrition," John Ortberg underscores that the road to amends leads through the station of contrition. Contrition humbles.
- [The slow work of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/18/the-slow-work-of-god/) - In "The slow work of God," John Ortberg cites Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who exhorts us to above all, trust the slow work of God.
- [The industrial-grade version](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/16/the-industrial-grade-version/) - In "The industrial-grade version," John Ortberg stresses that, in making amends, we'll generally need the industrial-grade version of an apology.
- [The art of self-soothing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/15/the-art-of-self-soothing/) - In "The art of self-soothing," John Ortberg says that when we get in a flooding stage of rage, we need to cultivate the art of self-soothing.
- [Palm-licking time, with God's help](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/14/palm-licking-time-with-gods-help/) - In "Palm-licking time, with God's help," John Ortberg writes that when anxiety overwhelms us and it is palm-licking time. we realize that we need God's help.
- [Inhuman monster or broken person?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/13/inhuman-monster-or-broken-person/) - In "Inhuman monster or broken person?" John Ortberg says that at the cross of Jesus we view the person who hurt us as a broken person, not an inhuman monster.
- [Avoid pain or make amends?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/12/avoid-pain-or-make-amends/) - In "Avoid pain or make amends?" John Ortberg counsels that, in refusing to make amends, we don't really want forgiveness, we just want to avoid pain.
- [Willing to make amends?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/11/willing-to-make-amends/) - In "Willing to make amends?" John Ortberg describes being willing to make amends as a formidable challenge, with barriers to overcome.
- [Competitive victimhood](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/10/competitive-victimhood/) - In "Competitive victimhood," John Ortberg, citing Rebecca DeYoung, describes mismanaged anger as a fruitless exercise in competitive victimhood.
- [Taking the skunks with us](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/09/taking-the-skunks-with-us/) - In "Taking the skunks with us." John Ortberg underscores that we keep taking the skunks -- our character defects -- with us. We get used to them.
- [When our hearts are wintry](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/14/when-our-hearts-are-wintry/) - "When our hearts are wintry" is the Easter Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Now the Green Blade Riseth."
- [Big differences between us, God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/08/big-differences-between-us-god/) - In "Big differences between us, God" John Ortberg says one of the big differences between us and God is we want to use God to change our circumstances.
- [The primary distinction in the Bible](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/06/the-primary-distinction-in-the-bible/) - In "The primary distinction in the Bible," John Ortberg says the primary distinction involves this key question: What kind of person can God work with?
- [Deficit-removal = a process](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/07/deficit-removal-a-process/) - In "Deficit-removal = a process," John Ortberg underscores that deficit-removal isn't a one-a-done request. Rather it is a process.
- [Love your weaknesses and faults?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/05/love-your-weaknesses-and-faults/) - Iin "Love your weaknesses and faults?" John Ortberg cites Thomas Keating, who says the point may come when you actually love your weaknesses and faults
- [Death to the self = surrender](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/16/death-to-the-self-surrender/) - In "Death to the self = surrender," John Ortberg underscores that surrender means death to the self. However, surrender is not death of the self.
- [Conditional surrender?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/18/conditional-surrender/) - In "Conditional surrender," John Ortberg underscores that when it comes to our spiritual life, conditional surrender is a contradiction in terms.
- [The constant illusion: special-aholic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/04/the-constant-illusion-special-aholic/) - In "The constant illusion: special-aholic," John Ortberg talks about the constant illusion of seeking to be 'special'. No one's made it yet.
- [Character is reliant on one word](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/02/character-is-reliant-on-one-word/) - In "Character is reliant on one word," John Ortberg underscores that character is reliant on one word. And that word is 'habit.'
- [Golden Rule of Habit Formation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/03/golden-rule-of-habit-formation/) - In "Golden Rule of Habit Formation," John Ortberg underscores that change lies in what Charles Duhigg refers to as the Golden Rule of Habit Formation.
- [An excuse search engine: the mind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/06/01/an-excuse-search-engine-the-mind/) - In "An excuse search engine: the mind," John Ortberg underscores that if the heart is an idol factory, the mind functions as an excuse search engine
- [Entirely ready vs. almost ready](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/31/entirely-ready-vs-almost-ready/) - In "Entirely ready vs. almost ready," John Ortberg confesses that he's ready for God to change him -- until he isn't. He's just not entirely ready.
- [A Ulysses pact = accountability](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/30/a-ulysses-pact-accountability/) - In "A Ulysses pact - accountability," John Ortberg states that in a Ulysses pact we commit ourselves to a situation where will power may not suffice.
- [Idiot compassion or wise compassion?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/28/idiot-compassion-or-wise-compassion/) - In "Idiot compassion or wise compassion?" John Ortberg cites Lori Gottleib, who contrasts idiot compassion with wise compassion.
- [Doorknob disclosures: truth bomb](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/29/doorknob-disclosures/) - In "Doorknob disclosures," John Ortberg describes doorknob confessions as truth bombs clients make as they are about to leave their therapy session
- [Facing up to another person](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/27/facing-up-to-another-person/) - In "Facing up to another person?" John Ortberg notes the embarrassment of facing up to another person. But to clean house we must face up to what's hidden.
- [Save your face and polish up?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/26/save-your-face-and-polish-up/) - In "Save your face and polish up?" John Ortberg questions whether you're trying to save your face or reveal the covered-up part of you that no one sees.
- [Not our talent but our worth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/25/not-our-talent-but-our-worth/) - In "Not our talent but our worth," John Ortberg stresses that, according to Jesus, what is 'fixed' about us is not our talent but our worth.
- [Fear is that way - it sheds](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/24/fear-is-that-way-it-sheds/) - In "Fear is that way - it sheds," John Ortberg stresses that fear seems to get into everything. Like his shedding dog Baxter, fear is that way.
- [Bland confession: superficial](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/23/bland-confession-superficial/) - In "Bland confessions: superficial," John Ortberg compares bland confession to taking a shower fully clothed. Because it's very hard to get clean.
- [The answer you always somehow knew](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/25/the-answer-you-always-somehow-knew/) - In "The answer you always somehow knew," John Ortberg underscores that Jesus is the answer you somehow always knew. A light on your paty
- [The relaxed face test](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/22/the-relaxed-face-test/) - In "The relaxed face test," John Ortberg advocates taking the relaxed face test to help determine your level of willingness to deal with resistance.
- [Supply chain problems](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/21/supply-chain-problems/) - In "Supply chain problems," John Ortberg underscores that supply chain problems carry far more urgency with regard to love and honesty than material goods.
- [The other side of surrender](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/20/the-other-side-of-surrender/) - In "The other side of surrender," John Ortberg underscores that spiritual life begins on the other side of surrender. And it's wonderfully life-giving.
- [Willingness vs. willfulness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/17/willingness-vs-willfulness/) - In "Willingness vs. willfulness," John Ortberg cites psychiatrist Gerald May, who contrasts willingness -- which involves surrender -- with willfulness.
- [Accept the fact we're already dead](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/15/accept-the-fact-were-already-dead/) - In "Accept the fact we're already dead," John Ortberg underscores that our only hope is to accept the fact that we're already dead.
- [Know about God vs. know Him](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/14/know-about-god-vs-know-him/) - In "Know about God vs. know Him," John Ortberg underscores that at times people mistake 'to know about God' for affirming correct information about Him.
- [Longest journey in the world](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/13/longest-journey-in-the-world/) - In "Longest journey in the world," John Ortberg underscores that the longest journey in the world involves the twelve inches from your head to your heart.
- [Core doubts and core beliefs](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/12/core-doubts-and-core-beliefs/) - In "Core doubts and core beliefs," John Ortberg underscores that people have core beliefs as well as core doubts- ones that interfere with our growth.
- [Forty rounds with the devil](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/17/forty-rounds-with-the-devil/) - "Forty rounds with the devil" is the March Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion Ministries and includes two selections from Handel's Messiah.
- [Tools of His presence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/11/tools-of-his-presence/) - In "Tools of HIs presence," John Ortberg views waiting, uncertainty, and wrong decisions as tools of His presence. Not signs of God's absence.
- [Everybody is inadequate](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/10/everybody-is-inadequate/) - In "Everybody is inadequate," John Ortberg asserts that, while everybody is inadequate, our inadequacy does not need to be the end of the story.
- [But God begs to differ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/09/but-god-begs-to-differ/) - In "But God begs to differ," John Ortberg notes that you can tell yourself that your situation will never change. But God begs to differ.
- [When God speaks - listen, believe](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/13/when-god-speaks-listen-believe/) - In "When God speaks - listen, believe" Joel Muddamalle underscores that Zechariah needed a reminder that when God speaks, one must listen and believe
- [Saying yes to transformation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/11/saying-yes-to-transformation/) - Inn "Saying yes to transformation," Joel Muddamalle notes that in saying yes to transformation, we welcome the Holy Spirit to shape us in Christ's image.
- [An adequate foundation in life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/08/an-adequate-foundation-in-life/) - In "An adequate foundation in life," John Ortberg underscores that having circumstances be okay is not an adequate foundation in life.
- [The crises we avoid in life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/07/the-crises-we-avoid-in-life/) - In "The crises we avoid in life," John Ortberg underscores that life is about the person we become, not the crises we avoid.
- [Settle for mediocrity of spirit?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/06/settle-for-mediocrity-of-spirit/) - In "Settle for mediocrity of spirit?" John Ortberg cautions that when we want more, but lack passion, we settle for mediocrity of spirit.
- [Everybody gets crucified by something](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/04/everybody-gets-crucified-by-something/) - In "Everybody gets crucified by something," John Ortberg says that we're all overly attached to something, Everybody gets crucified by something.
- [The true spiritual journey](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/03/the-true-spiritual-journey/) - In "The true spiritual journey," John Ortberg says that we must relinquish our need for control to embark on the true spiritual journey
- [The Hidden Peace: Finding True . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/02/the-hidden-peace-finding-true/) - "The Hidden Peace: Finding Treu . . . " by Joel Muddamalle is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's Annotated Bibliography.
- [A more significant gift: knowing Who](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/05/01/a-more-significant-gift-knowing-who/) - In "A more significant gift: knowing Who," Joel Muddamalle underscores that we need a more significant gift than knowing why. We need to know Who-God.
- [The small world of self](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/30/the-small-world-of-self/) - In "The small world of self," Joel Muddamalle notes that humility shifts our perspective from the small world of self to God's vast world.
- [Hard decisions about boundaries](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/29/hard-decisions-about-boundaries/) - in "Hard decisions about boundaries," Joel Muddamalle says it's crucial that we keep a soft heart when making hard decisions about boundaries
- [Humility keeps our hearts soft](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/28/humility-keeps-our-hearts-soft/) - In "Humility keeps our hearts soft," Joel Muddamalle states that humility keeps our hearts soft. It gives us courage to establish and maintain peace.
- [A sibling to humility - boundaries](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/27/a-sibling-to-humility-boundaries/) - In "A sibling to humility - boundaries," Joel Muddamalle underscores that boundaries rooted in humility are, in a way, a sibling to humility.
- [Keeping one-another relationships](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/26/keeping-one-another-relationships/) - In "Keeping one-another relationships," Joel Muddamalle views humility as an essential element in establishing and keeping one-another relationships.
- [Biblical humility vs. humiliation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/25/biblical-humility-vs-humiliation/) - In "Biblical humility vs. humiliation," Joel Muddamalle underscores that any humility that results in humiliation is not biblical humility.
- [Keep choosing humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/24/keep-choosing-humility/) - In "Keep choosing humility," Joel Muddamalle encourages you to keep choosing humility in your heart and keep choosing the way of Jesus.
- [Arise, shine!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2015/12/14/arise-shine/) - "Arise, shine!" is the Christmas Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and features the Messiah chorus "Oh, thou that tellest good tidings to Zion."
- [The perfect ingredient: weakness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/23/the-perfect-ingredient-weakness/) - In "The perfect ingredient: weakness," Joel Muddamalle underscores that weakness is not our enemy. Rather, it's the perfect ingredient in the soil of humility.
- [Protect our hearts: humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/22/protect-our-hearts-humility/) - In "Protect our hearts: humility," Joel Muddamalle stresses the importance of allowing humility to protect our hearts when we feel humiliated.
- [Multidirectional humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/21/multidirectional-humility/) - In "Multidirectional humility," Joel Muddamalle stresses that the apostle Paul always viewed humility as multidirectional.
- [A God-first perspective on humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/20/a-god-first-perspective-on-humility/) - "In "A God-first perspective on humility," Joel Muddamalle describes what happens when we view humility from a God-first perspective.
- [His path of exaltation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/19/his-path-of-exaltation/) - In "His path of exaltation," Joel Muddamalle underscores that humility was Jesus' path of exaltation. Humiliation wasn't the end.
- [Foster a lifestyle of humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/18/foster-a-lifestyle-of-humility/) - In "Foster a lifestyle of humility," Joel Muddamalle stresses that one very practical thing you can do is to foster a lifestyle of humility
- [The yoke of Jesus: a good fit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/17/the-yoke-of-jesus-a-good-fit/) - In "The yoke of Jesus: a good fit," Joel Muddamalle says the yoke of Jesus provides a good fit for our shoulders to deal with the hurts of life.
- [Gentle humility in Jesus' life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/16/gentle-humility-in-jesus-life/) - In "Gentle humility in Jesus' life," Joel Muddamalle describes Jesus' willingness to be low and consider others as a gentle humility.
- [The deeply formed mission](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/17/deeply-formed-mission/) - "The Deeply formed mission" is the February Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes "How beautiful are the feet" from Handel's Messiah.
- [Cultivate humility consistently](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/15/cultivate-humility-consistently/) - In "Cultivate humility consistently," Joel Muddamalle underscores that we need to cultivate the soil of humility in the Christian life.
- [The Bible reads you!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/18/the-bible-reads-you/) - In "The Bible reads you!" Mark Batterson asserts that you don't just read the Bible. In addition, the Bible reads you. All truth is God's truth.
- [The fragrance of humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/12/the-fragrance-of-humility/) - In "The fragrance of humility," Joel Muddamalle underscores that humility should be the fragrance that marks every Christian virtue.
- [Staying close to the ground](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/10/staying-close-to-the-ground/) - In "Staying close to the ground," Joel Muddamalle cites Eugene Peterson, who describes humility as staying close to the ground.
- [Living a life of humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/09/living-a-life-of-humility/) - In "Living a life of humility," Joel Muddamalle underscores that living a life of humility gives you more confidence and courage.
- [A seductive sin - pride](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/08/a-seductive-sin-pride/) - In "A seductive sin - pride," Joel Muddamalle notes that while pride is a seductive sin, God's grace provides humility to overcome it.
- [Response-able for everything](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/14/response-able-for-everything/) - In "Response-able for everything," Mark Batterson underscores that we are response-able for everything that affects our outlook on life.
- [Altars and idols - a very fine line](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/16/altars-and-idols-a-very-fine-line/) - In "Altars and idols - a very fine line," Mark Batterson stresses that the very fine line between altars and idols turns into a wide divide
- [Curiosity without limits - absurd](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/07/curiosity-without-limits-absurd/) - In "Curiosity without limits - absurd," Joel Muddamalle asserts that curiosity without limits is absurd. Pride turns the absurd into what we deserve.
- [Our preoccupation with self](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/06/our-preoccupation-with-self/) - In "Our preoccupation with self," Joel Muddamalle underscores that our preoccupation with self runs deep, so familiar we fail to see it.
- [Elevate ourselves to be like God?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/05/elevate-ourselves-to-be-like-god/) - In "Elevate ourselves to be like God?" Joel Muddamalle stresses that pride takes us on a journey of trying to elevate ourselves to be like God.
- [Hidden pride - cunning, difficult](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/04/hidden-pride-cunning-difficult/) - In '"Hidden pride - cunning, difficult" Joel Muddamalle describes hidden pride as cunning and difficult because it takes place in the human heart.
- [The power of humility: clarity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/03/the-power-of-humility-clarity/) - In "The power of humility: clarity," Joel Muddamalle underscores that the power of humility lies in the clarity it brings us.
- [A peculiar yet powerful gift](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/02/a-peculiar-yet-powerful-gift/) - In "A peculiar yet powerful gift," Joel Muddamalle underscores that God gave us a peculiar and powerful gift. The gift of humility.
- [But God certainly is!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/04/01/but-god-certainly-is/) - In "But God certainly is!" Joel Muddamalle underscores our need to hear the phrase 'but God certainly is" when we get discouraged about what we're not.
- [God meets you in your weakness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/31/god-meets-you-in-your-weakness/) - In "God meets you in your weakness," Joel Muddamalle underscores that God empowers you for the life He wants you to live as He meets you in your weakness.
- [Living in communion with God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/30/living-in-communion-with-god/) - Iin "Living in communion with God," Joel Muddamalle describes vulnerability and weakness as necessities for living in communion with God.
- [Come to terms with our limits](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/29/come-to-terms-with-our-limits/) - In "Come to terms with our limits," Joel Muddamalle underscores that the reality ofweakness is the way to come to terms with our limits.
- [Strive to fortify our humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/28/strive-to-fortify-our-humility/) - In "Strive to fortify our humility, " Joel Muddamalle cites Teresa of Avila, who exhorted us to strive to fortify our humility, not let fears trouble us
- [A humbling experience: feeling lost](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/27/a-humbling-experience-feeling-lost/) - In "A humbling experience: feeling lost," Joel Muddamalle acknowledges that it's a humbling experience to be lost. But it's joyful to be found
- [The entire universe - taking care](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/26/the-entire-universe-taking-care/) - In "The entire universe - taking care," Joel Muddamalle underscores that the Lord of heaven and earth is taking care of the entire universe.
- [The nearness of God - promised](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/25/the-nearness-of-god-promised/) - In "The nearness of God - promised," Joel Muddamalle underscores that we're promised the nearness of God to help us face our fears.
- [Gladly rest in his vastness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/24/gladly-rest-in-his-vastness/) - In" Gladly rest in his vastness," Joel Muddamalle stresses we can gladly rest in his vastness if we humbly accept our limits.
- [The presence of the King](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/23/the-presence-of-the-king/) - In "The presence of the King," Joel Muddamalle states that we find that the presence of the King in the midst of our fear is promised in Psalm 46.
- [Unwanted and unnecessary - humility?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/22/unwanted-and-unnecessary-humility/) - In "Unwanted and unnecessary - humility?" Joel Muddamalle asserts that we tend to view humility as unwanted and unnecessary when we take control.
- [To display his attributes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/21/to-display-his-attributes/) - In "To display his attributes," Joel Muddamalle underscores that our kind, compassionate, and just God expects us to display his attributes.
- [The pathway of humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/20/the-pathway-of-humility/) - In "The pathway of humility," Lysa TerKeurst exhorts us to choose the pathway of humility rather than the path of humiliation.
- [Snow on snow - snow on snow](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/20/snow-on-snow-snow-on-snow/) - "Snow on snow - snow on snow" is the January Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the song "In the Bleak Mid-winter."
- [Keep digging deeper and deeper](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/14/keep-digging-deeper-and-deeper/) - Iin "Keep digging deeper and deeper," Mark Batterson encourages us to keep digging deeper and deeper into counting our blessings.
- [Always be connecting dots - ABCD](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/16/always-be-connecting-dots-abcd/) - In "Always be connecting dots - ABCD." Mark Batterson discusses a philosophy of leadership by Sir Richard Bronson called ABCD- always be connecting dots.
- [A Million Little Miracles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/19/a-million-little-miracles/) - "A Million Little Miracles" by Mark Batterson is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [A single grain of sand](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/18/a-single-grain-of-sand/) - In "A single grain of sand," Mark Batterson underscores that sand, even a single grain of sand, is more miraculous than we can imagine.
- [Cultivate holy curiosity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/15/cultivate-holy-curiosity/) - In "Cultivate holy curiosity," Mark Batterson stresses that we worship in truth as we cultivate holy curiosity. We seek, ask, and knock.
- [Our script-cure = Scripture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/13/our-script-cure-scripture/) - In "Our script-cure = Scripture," Mark Batterson underscores that we use Scripture as our script-cure to rewrite any negative narrative
- [Look to the morning of creation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/12/look-to-the-morning-of-creation/) - In "Look to the morning of creation," Mark Batterson cites Helmut Thielicke, who exhorts us to look to the morning of creation, go behind the lost paradise.
- [Wonder switch in the off position](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/11/wonder-switch-in-the-off-position/) - in "Wonder switch in the off position," Mark Batterson wonders how our wonder switch got flipped to the off` position. The answer is rather ironic
- [Inviting us into His world](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/10/inviting-us-into-his-world/) - In "Inviting us into His world," Mark Batterson says that when God gives us the responsibility to name things He's inviting us into His world.
- [Chasing butterflies brings joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/09/chasing-butterflies-brings-joy/) - Inn "Chasing butterflies brings joy," Mark Batterson underscores that it's chasing butterflies, rather than catching them, that brings joy.
- [The outcome of all study](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/08/the-outcome-of-all-study/) - In "The outcome of all study," Mark Batterson cites Saint Ninian of Whithorn, who asserted that the outcome of all study must reflect the eternal word of God.
- [Singing the praises of simple seeds](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/07/singing-the-praises-of-simple-seeds/) - in "Singing the praises of simple seeds," Mark Batterson advocates singing the praises of simple seeds because seeds sustain human life.
- [Inherent goodness of God's creation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/06/inherent-goodness-of-gods-creation/) - In "Inherent goodness of God's creation," Mark Batterson underscores that we must consecrate with gratitude the inherent goodness of God's creation.
- [The life lie - guiding fiction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/05/the-life-lie-guiding-fiction/) - In "The life lie - guiding fiction," Mark Batterson stresses that the life lie is our guiding fiction. It's the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.
- [Part and parcel of original doubt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/04/part-and-parcel-of-original-doubt/) - In "Part and parcel of original doubt," Mark Batterson says our tendency to complain about what's wrong is part and parcel of original doubt.
- [Our deepest longing - blessing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/03/our-deepest-longing-blessing/) - In "Our deepest longing - blessing," Mark Batterson describes blessing as our deepest longing. Because blessing is God's most ancient instinct.
- [Trying them on for size](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/02/trying-them-on-for-size/) - In "Trying them on for size," Mark Batterson underscores that knowing the names of God involves trying them on for size. A dimension of spiritual growth
- [A secret law of the soul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/03/01/a-secret-law-of-the-soul/) - In "A secret law of the soul," Mark Batterson cites A. W. Tozer, who said we move toward our mental image of God via a secret law of the soul.
- [A false conception of who God is](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/28/a-false-conception-of-who-god-is/) - In "A false conception of who God is," Mark Batterson stresses that those who reject God are in reality rejecting a false conception of who God is
- [Solitary conceit side effect](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/27/solitary-conceit-side-effect/) - In "Solitary conceit side effects," Mark Batterson identifies solitary conceit as a serious side effect that results from a lack of healthy relationships.
- [Only a prayer away - God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/26/only-a-prayer-away-god/) - In "Only a prayer away - God," Mark Batterson underscores that even though God feels a million miles away at times, He's only a prayer away.
- [Mind and matter, nature and nurture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/25/mind-and-matter-nature-and-nurture/) - In "Mind and matter, nature and nurture," Mark Batterson affirms his belief in mind and matter, nature and nurture. We can think about how we think.
- [The dandelion principle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/24/the-dandelion-principle/) - In "The dandelion principle," Mark Batterson says that some people view the dandelion as a week while others see its usefulness - the dandelion principle.
- [Worship God with a capital G](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/23/worship-god-with-a-capital-g/) - in "Worship God with a capital G," Mark Batterson counsels that we either worship God with a capital G or substitute a lesser god.
- [Our soundtrack - worship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/22/our-soundtrack-worship/) - In "Our soundtrack - worship," Mark Batterson underscores that worship is our soundtrack. We need to look no further than the Psalms
- [Singing songs of deliverance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/21/singing-songs-of-deliverance/) - In "Singing songs of deliverance," Mark Batterson underscores that God sings songs of deliverance around us all the time. He rejoices over us!
- [A testament to God's ingenuity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/20/a-testament-to-gods-ingenuity/) - In "A testament to God's ingenuity," Mark Batterson sees the ability to evolve as a testament to God's ingenuity. But evolving doesn't happen by default
- [Equation of creation - take God out?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/19/equation-of-creation-take-god-out/) - In "Equation of creation - take God out?" Mark Batterson asserts that ethical side effects occur when one takes God out of the equation of creation.
- [Gratitude = wanting what you have](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/15/gratitude-wanting-what-you-have/) - In "Gratitude = wanting what you have," Mark Batterson defines gratitude as wanting what you have, not getting what you want.
- [Nuanced gratitude = nuanced joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/13/nuanced-gratitude-nuanced-joy/) - In "Nuanced gratitude = nuanced joy," Mark Batterson underscores that nuanced gratitude results in nuanced joy, while generic gratitude = generic joy.
- [The minute details of your life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/12/the-minute-details-of-your-life/) - In "The minute details of your life," Mark Batterson underscores God's attention to the minute details of your life, Nothing's too great or too small for God.
- [Hail redemption's happy dawn!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/16/hail-redemptions-happy-dawn/) - "Hail redemption's happy dawn!" is the Christmas Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "See Amid the Winter's Snow."
- [Holy surprises - God winks](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/11/holy-surprises-god-winks/) - In "Holy surprises - God winks," Mark Batterson notes that our predictably unpredictable God has some holy surprises up His sovereign sleeve.
- [Holy confidence vs. self-confidence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/10/holy-confidence-vs-self-confidence/) - In "Holy confidence vs. self-confidence," Mark Batterson states we have holy confidence when the locus of our confidence is the character and promises of God.
- [Come out swinging - address sin?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/17/come-out-swinging-address-sin/) - In "Come out swinging - address sin?" Lysa TerKeurst acknowledges the great temptation to get all riled up and come out swinging to make wrongs right.
- [Bigger than the whole kit and caboodle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/09/bigger-than-the-whole-kit-and-caboodle/) - In "Bigger than the whole kit and caboodle," Mark Batterson underscores that God's bigger than the whole kit and caboodle, including the radio galaxy Alcyoneus.
- [Working in our lives backward](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/08/working-in-our-lives-backward/) - In "Working in our lives backward," Mark Batterson underscores that while we live our lives forward, God is working in our lives backward.
- [A reality distortion field](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/07/a-reality-distortion-field/) - In "A reality distortion field," Mark Batterson says that, spiritually speaking, a reality distortion field means putting no ceilings on God
- [No expiration date on prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/06/no-expiration-date-on-prayer/) - In "No expiration date on prayer," Mark Batterson underscores that there's no expiration date on prayer. Prayer is escape velocity from spacetime limitations.
- [Theologize, not politicize](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/05/theologize-not-politicize/) - In "Theologize, not politicize" Mark Batterson asserts that God calls us to theologize in the midst of a world that politicizes everything
- [The scales of the habitual](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/04/the-scales-of-the-habitual/) - In "The scales of the habitual," Mark Batterson wonders whether the scales of the habitual have clouded our vision for a million little miracles.
- [Intellectual propositions vs. feelings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/03/intellectual-propositions-vs-feelings/) - In "Intellectual propositions vs. feelings," Mark Batterson asserts that feelings, not intellectual propositions, make most of us believers.
- [A divine decree - pleasure](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/02/a-divine-decree-pleasure/) - In "A divine decree - pleasure," Mark Batterson cites David Gibson, who cautions that we ignore the divine decree of pleasure at our peril
- [The playfulness envelope](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/02/01/the-playfulness-envelope/) - In "The playfulness envelope," Mark Batterson underscores that Jesus pushed the playfulness envelope further than anybody.
- [A thin place - heaven invades earth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/31/a-thin-place-heaven-invades-earth/) - In "A thin place - heaven invades earth," Mark Batterson observes that Celtic Christians describe a thin place as the place where heaven invades earth.
- [Faith adds God to every equation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/30/faith-adds-god-to-every-equation/) - In "Faith adds God to every equation," Mark Batterson asserts that what we believe is theological, not logical or illogical, Faith adds God to the equation.
- [Different outcome?  Change the input!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/29/different-outcome-change-the-input/) - In "Different outcome? Change the input!" Mark Batterson underscore that if you desire a different outcome, you must change the input.
- [Domesticating or discipling?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/28/domesticating-or-discipling/) - In "Domesticating or discipling?" Mark Batterson suggests that today's church tends more toward domesticating people rather than discipling them.
- [A two-foot field trip](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/27/a-two-foot-field-trip/) - In "A two-foot field trip," Mark Batterson talks about the time God invited Abram on a two-foot field trip. A trip that changed the trajectory of his life.
- [Hidden in plain sight](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/26/hidden-in-plain-sight/) - In "Hidden in plain sight," Mark Batterson defines inattentional blindness as the failure to see what is hidden in plain sight.
- [False dichotomy? - sacred and secular](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/25/false-dichotomy-sacred-and-secular/) - In "False dichotomy? - sacred and secular," Mark Batterson asserts that dividing things into sacred and secular represents a false dichotomy.
- [The task of Christianity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/23/the-task-of-christianity/) - In "The task of Christianity," Mark Batterson cites Kallistos Ware, who says it's not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question.
- [A flannelgraph god we micromanage](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/24/a-flannelgraph-god-micromanaged/) - In "A flannelgraph god we micromanage," Mark Batterson cautions against winding up with a flannelgraph god that we micromanage.
- [The mundane and the miraculous](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/22/the-mundane-and-the-miraculous/) - In "The mundane and the miraculous," Mark Batterson observes that a fine line exists between the mundane and the miraculous.
- [Everyday miracles with gratitude](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/21/everyday-miracles-with-gratitude/) - In "Everyday miracles with gratitude," Mark Batterson underscores the need to take everyday miracles for gratitude, not for granted.
- [His light goes before us](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/21/his-light-goes-before-us/) - "His light goes before us" is the November Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Let All Things Now Living."
- [I Want to Trust You, but . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/19/i-want-to-trust-you-but/) - "I Want to Trust You, but I Don't" by Lysa TerKeurst is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [Serenity that comes with moving on](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/18/serenity-that-comes-with-moving-on/) - in "Serenity that comes with moving on," Lysa TerKeurst says that you can improve your life when you accept the serenity that comes with moving on from hurt.
- [A healthier version of myself](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/16/a-healthier-version-of-myself/) - In "A healthier version of myself," Lysa TerKeurst advocates letting the healing work change her into a healthier version of herself
- [Betrayals and trust issues](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/15/betrayals-and-trust-issues/) - In "Betrayals and trust issues," Lysa TerKeurst underscores that while betrayals happened to her, the trust issues were happening in her.
- [The only One in control](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/14/the-only-one-in-control/) - In "The only One in control," Lysa TerKeurst asserts that trying to control the uncontrollable breeds chaos. We need to surrender to the only One in control.
- [Telling God to move over](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/13/telling-god-to-move-over/) - In "Telling God to move over," Lysa TerKeurst says when we self-protect to keep a sense of control, essentially, we are telling God to move over.
- [Never more powerful than God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/12/never-more-powerful-than-god/) - In "Never more powerful than God," Lysa TerKeurst underscores that people who break our trust and hurt our hearts are never more powerful than God.
- [Tangible evidence of God working?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/11/tangible-evidence-of-god-working/) - In "Tangible evidence of God working?"" Lysa TerKeurst says we hold on to the burden of unfairness when we don't see tangible evidence of God working.
- [Everybody's Normal Till . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/19/everybodys-normal-till/) - "Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them" by John Ortberg is the latest addition Crown of Compassion Ministries' annotated bibliography.
- [Without seeing the redemption](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/09/without-seeing-the-redemption/) - In "Without seeing the redemption," Lysa TerKeurst asserts that it builds faith to trust God without seeing the redemption.
- [Lift an unbowed head?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/08/lift-an-unbowed-head/) - In "Lift an unbowed head?" Lysa TerKeurst underscores that the Lord cannot lift an unbowed head. Because we wind up with a stiff neck from all the straining.
- [Tidy answer to all our questions"](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/10/tidy-answer-to-all-our-questions/) - In "Tidy answer to all our questions?" Lysa TerKeurst stresses that there won't be a tidy answer to all our questions about God's intervention.
- [Gap between sight and faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/07/gap-between/) - In "Gap between sight and faith," Lysa Terkeurst stresses that there will always be a gap between what we see and the full story God knows.
- [Achieving must honor community](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/09/achieving-must-honor-community/) - In "Achieving must honor community," John Ortberg underscores that achieving is no substitute for connecting and must also honor community.
- [Hollowed out by doubts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/06/hollowed-out-by-doubts/) - In "Hollowed out by doubts," Lysa TerKeurst cautions that it is dangerous to get hollowed out by our doubts and questions. To let them consume us.
- [Faith in my fears coming true](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/05/faith-in-my-fears-coming-true/) - In "Faith in my fears coming true," Lysa TerKeurst confesses that at times she has more faith in her fears coming true than in God coming through for her.
- [Attentive nature of Christians](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/04/attentive-nature-of-christians/) - In "Attentive nature of Christians," Lysa TerKeurst cites Dr. Joel Muddamalle, who stresses the importance of the attentive nature of Christians.
- [Replace trust with control?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/03/replace-trust-with-control/) - In "Replace trust with control?" Lysa TerKeurst underscores that when someone breaks our trust, it's tempting to replace trust with control
- [The truth comes out in actions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/02/the-truth-comes-out-in-actions/) - In "The truth comes out in actions," Lysa TerKeurst says people can say what you want to hear, but the truth comes out in actions.
- [A solid track record](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2025/01/01/a-solid-track-record/) - In "A solid track record," Lysa TerKeurst stresses that it takes trust, believable behavior, and consistency to establish a solid track record.
- [Small breaches of trust - rips](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/31/small-breaches-of-trust-rips/) - In "Small breaches of trust - rips," Lysa TerKeurst says that every rip needs to be repaired. Because small breaches of trust are small. Until they're not.
- [Red flag concerns - assessing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/30/red-flag-concerns-assessing/) - In "Red flag concerns - assessing," Lysa TerKeurst stresses that while we need to identify red flags, it's crucial to assess red flag concerns
- [Level of trust or distrust](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/29/level-of-trust-or-distrust/) - In "Level of trust or distrust," Lysa TerKeurst asserts that each red flag helps us to discern the level of trust or distrust we have with the other person.
- [Address the red flags](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/28/address-the-red-flags/) - In "Address the red flags," Lysa TerKeurst encourages us to practice discernment as we acknowledge and appropriately address the red flags in our lives.
- [Blind trust to wise trust](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/27/blind-trust-to-wise-trust/) - In "Blind trust to wise trust," Lysa TerKeurst stresses that we need to make the shift from blind trust to wise trust. Heed the red flags.
- [Repairing trust alone?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/26/repairing-trust-alone/) - In "Repairing trust alone? Lysa TerKeurst underscores that we cannot isolate ourselves and expect to work on repairing trust alone.
- [Pay the price - stuffing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/25/pay-the-price-stuffing/) - In "Pay the price - stuffing," Lysa TerKeurst cautions that eventually we pay the price for stuffing our feelings. We risk causing more damage.
- [Fact and feeling = safety](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/24/fact-and-feeling-safety/) - In "Fact and feeling = safety," Lysa TerKeurst stresses the importance of paying attention to both fact and feeling when seeking to trust another person.
- [Start fueling hope in God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/23/start-fueling-hope-in-god/) - In "Start fueling hope in God," Lysa TerKeurst says that recounting everyday moments where God's come through enables you to start fueling hope.
- [To dare to hope  - willing?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/22/to-dare-to-hope-willing/) - In "To dare to hope - willing?" Lysa TerKeurst stresses that when we dare to hope we simultaneously expose our greatest desires and greatest fears.
- [Our great heritage - God's Word](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/21/our-great-heritage-gods-word/) - "Our great heritage - God's Word" is the October Short Mediation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "God's Word is Our Great Heritage."
- [Trust issues - not a label](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/21/trust-issues-not-a-label/) - In "Trust issues - not a label," Lysa TerKeurst observes that many of us have trust issues. But that's not something we should be ashamed of.
- [Life altering vs. life ruining](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/20/life-altering-vs-life-ruining/) - In "Life altering vs. life ruining," Lysa TerKeurst underscores that while the trauma of broken trust is life altering, it doesn't have to be life ruining.
- [Our earthly kingdoms](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/18/our-earthly-kingdoms/) - In "Our earthly kingdoms," John Ortberg stresses that we don't necessarily long for God's kingdom to come when our earthly kingdoms have a good year
- [Despair and hope - the choice](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/17/despair-and-hope-the-choice/) - In "Despair and hope - the choice," John Ortberg underscores that ultimately, the choice all of us face is the choice between hope and despair.
- [Walling in or walling out](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/15/walling-in-or-walling-out/) - In "Walling in or walling out," John Ortberg cites poet Robert Frost, who wondered in "The Mending Wall" what he was walling in or walling out .
- [Exclusion and embrace - the choice](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/14/exclusion-and-embrace-the-choice/) - Iin "Exclusion and embrace - the choice," John Ortberg asserts that the core of Christian community is the choice between exclusion or embrace.
- [The cost of truth-telling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/13/the-cost-of-truth-telling/) - In "The cost of truthy-telling," John Ortberg underscores our need to consider the cost of truth-telling and why it happens so rarely in our world.
- [The secret of the snake](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/12/the-secret-of-the-snake/) - In "The secret of the snake," John Ortberg reveals the secret of the snake. Like sin, snakes are easy to grab, but hard to let go
- [Speak the truth in humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/11/speak-the-truth-in-humility/) - In "Speak the truth in humility," John Ortberg cites Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who talks about the type of Christian who cannot speak the truth in humility.
- [Foundational paradox re: porcupines](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/10/foundational-paradox-re-porcupines/) - In "Foundational paradox re: porcupines," John Ortberg defines this paradox as wanting to know the truth about ourselves, and not wanting to know.
- [True forgiveness - never cheap](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/09/true-forgiveness-never-cheap/) - In "True forgiveness - never cheap," John Ortberg stresses that true forgiveness is never cheap. But non-forgiveness costs your heart.
- [The forgiver and the forgivee](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/08/the-forgiver-and-the-forgivee/) - In "The forgiver and the forgivee," John Ortberg observes that in most relationships where deep pain is involved, we're both the forgiver and the forgivee
- [The crisis of forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/07/the-crisis-of-forgiveness/) - In "The crisis of forgiveness," John Ortberg cites Lewis Smedes, who talks about when we detour around the crisis of forgiveness.
- [Rhythm of the divine heartbeat](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/06/rhythm-of-the-divine-heartbeat/) - In "Rhythm of the divine heartbeat," John Ortberg cites John Smedes, who says you dance to the rhythm of the divine heartbeat when you forgive someone.
- [Anger management or a miracle?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/05/anger-management-or-a-miracle/) - In "Anger management or a miracle?" John Ortberg stresses that sometimes we need more than anger management. We need the miracle of forgiveness.
- [The litmus test of spirituality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/04/the-litmus-test-of-spirituality/) - Iin "The litmus test of spirituality," John Ortberg defines the litmus test of spirituality as how we handle conflict. Resentment is optional.
- [A smoke detector for anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/03/a-smoke-detector-for-anger/) - In "A smoke detector for anger," John Ortberg compares anger to a smoke detector. While it serves a purpose, you don't want it making constant noise.
- [Natural inclination re: conflict](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/02/natural-inclination-re-conflict/) - In "Natural inclination re: conflict," John Ortberg stresses that our natural inclination is to handle conflict in a destructive manner.
- [Communities need tensions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/12/01/communities-need-tensions/) - In "Communities need tensions," John Ortberg cites Jean Vanier, who underscores that communities need tensions in order to grow and deepen.
- [A finely tuned machine?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/30/a-finely-tuned-machine/) - In "A finely tuned machine?" John Ortberg counsels that you can never expect the other people in your life to function as finely tuned machines
- [Some assembly required](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/29/some-assembly-required-2/) - In "Some assembly required," John Ortberg asserts that every relationship is a construction zone. With some assembly required.
- [Conversational intersection](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/28/conversational-intersection/) - In "Conversational intersection," John Ortberg asks if we've ever gone through a conversational intersection without stopping.
- [Wear our souls 'on our sleeves'](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/27/wear-our-souls-on-our-sleeves/)
- [Sloppy complacency - opposite](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/26/sloppy-complacency-opposite/) - In "Sloppy complacency - opposite," John Ortberg cites Jean Vanier, who underscores that it's not a sloppy complacency to accept the weaknesses of others.
- [Simply irrelevant - condemnation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/25/simply-irrelevant-condemnation/) - In "Simply irrelevant - condemnation," John Ortberg cites Dallas Willard, who says the life of friendship with Jesus renders condemnation simply irrelevant.
- [Scandalized by sins of the spirit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/24/scandalized-by-sins-of-the-spirit/) - In "Scandalized by sins of the spirit," John Ortberg underscores that Jesus was most scandalized by sins of the spirit, not sins of the flesh
- [The person I love the least](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/23/the-person-i-love-the-least/) - In "The person I love the least," John Ortberg cites Dorothy Day, who asserts that you only love God as much as the person you have the least love for.
- [No healing in hiding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/22/no-healing-in-hiding/) - In "No healing in hiding," John Ortberg underscores that there's no healing in hiding. That our life depends on getting found.
- [The discipline of confession](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/20/the-discipline-of-confession/) - In "The discipline of confession," John Ortberg cites Richard Foster, who stresses the importance of the cross to the discipline of confession.
- [Imposter's phenomenon](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/19/imposters-phenomenon/) - In "Imposter's phenomenon," John Ortberg defines imposter's phenomenon as the universal sense that, at some level, we're faking it.
- [Prepared to do what's wrong](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/18/prepared-to-do-whats-wrong/) - In "Prepared to do what's wrong," John Ortberg observes that while we want to do what's right, we're often prepared to do what's wrong.
- [Fellowship of confession](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/17/fellowship-of-confession/) - In "Fellowship of confession," John Ortberg cites Dietrich Bonhoeffer asserts that a Christian in the fellowship of confession is never alone.
- [The Fellowship of the Mat](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/16/the-fellowship-of-the-mat/) - In "The Fellowship of the Mat," John Ortberg stresses that the Fellowship of the Mat still exists. But it's not an easy fellowship to be part of
- [Moral insiders](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2013/09/15/moral-insiders/)
- [In community with Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/15/in-community-with-jesus/) - In "In community with Jesus," John Ortberg underscores that, in community with Jesus, our sins are named and dealt with - the best gift of all.
- [The irony of the mat](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/14/the-irony-of-the-mat/) - In "The irony of the mat," John Ortberg defines the irony of the mat as that it's precisely our mats that form connecting points with others
- [Microwave friendship?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/13/microwave-friendship/) - In "Microwave friendship?" John Ortberg counsels that wise people don't try to microwave friendship, parenting, or marriage.
- [Our great surprise - Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/16/our-great-surprise-jesus/) - "Our great surprise - Jesus" is the September Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion Ministries and includes the hymn "Stay with Us,"
- [The 'new math' of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/12/the-new-math-of-god/) - In "The 'new math' of God," John Ortberg stresses that Jesus' prayer for His followers to become one represents the new math of God.
- [The shyness of deference](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/11/the-shyness-of-deference/) - In "The shyness of deference," John Ortberg quotes Frederick Bruner, who stresses that the shyness of the Holy Spirit is the shyness of deference, not timidity.
- [A place of resurrection](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/10/a-place-of-resurrection/) - In "A place of resurrection," John Ortberg cites Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche community. Vanier calls community a place of resurrection.
- [Particularly prickly porcupines](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/08/particularly-prickly-porcupines/) - In "Particularly prickly porcupines," John Ortberg describes our ability to think of a number of particularly prickly porcupines in our lives.
- [Reciprocal rootedness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/07/reciprocal-rootedness/) - In "Reciprocal rootedness," John Ortberg observes that God made us for community. A place where reciprocal rootedness takes place.
- [Illusion that people are normal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/06/illusion-that-people-are-normal/) - In "Illusion that people are normal," John Ortberg observes what happens when we enter relationships with the illusion that people are normal.
- [The Narrow Path: How . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/05/the-narrow-path-how/) - "The Narrow Path: How the Subversive Way of Jesus Satisfies our Souls" by Rich Villodas is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's Annotated Bibliography
- [Lack of disturbance = security?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/04/lack-of-disturbance-security/) - In "Lack of disturbance = security?" Rich Villodas observes that we tend to imagine security as ease and the lack of disturbance.
- [Knowledge equals maturity?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/03/knowledge-equals-maturity/) - in "Knowledge equals maturity?" Rich Villodas counsels against our human tendency to deceive ourselves into thinking that knowledge equals maturity.
- [Spiritual maturity measure](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/02/spiritual-maturity-measure/) - In "Spiritual maturity measure,' Rich Villodas asserts that the best measure of spiritual maturity is how much we imitate Jesus' love toward enemies.
- [Created God in your own image?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/11/01/created-god-in-your-own-image/) - In "Created God in your own image?" Rich Villodas cites a priest friend of Annie Lamott, who weighs in on when we've created God in our own image.
- [Biggest hindrance to the gospel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/31/biggest-hindrance-to-the-gospel/) - In "Biggest hindrance to the gospel," Rich Villodas underscores that atheism is not the biggest hindrance to the gospel. It's being Christian in name only.
- [Spiritual self-deception](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/30/spiritual-self-deception/) - In "Spiritual self-deception," Rich Villodas says one of the greatest causes of spiritual deception centers on believing knowledge =the goal of Christian life.
- [A maze to navigate?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/29/a-maze-to-navigate/) - in "A maze to navigate?" Rich Villodas underscores that God's will is not a maze to navigate. Where one wrong move disqualifies us.
- [Self-examination over judging](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/28/self-examination-over-judging/) - In "Self-examination over judging," Rich Villodas stresses the importance of choosing self-examination over judging. We don't see as God does.
- [Every judgment = a self-judgment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/27/every-judgment-a-self-judgment/) - In "Every judgment = a self-judgment," Rich Villodas cites Howard Thurman, who noted the difficulty of realizing that every judgment is a self-judgment.
- [Judging machines = human beings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/26/judging-machines-human-beings/) - In "Judging machines = human beings," Rich Villodas describes human beings as judging machines. Because judging is a common, repeated occurrence.
- [Putting God first - an overhaul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/25/putting-god-first-an-overhaul/) - In "Putting God first - an overhaul," Rich Villodas notes that when many people talk about putting God first it often means doing external, spiritual stuff.
- [The degree of worry - soul level](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/24/the-degree-of-worry-soul-level/) - In "The degree of worry - soul level," Rich Villodas underscores that the images of God we have in our heads determine the degree of worry we feel in our souls.
- [Carefree spirituality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/23/carefree-spirituality/) - In "Carefree spirituality," Rich Villodas asserts that carefree spirituality should characterize people living under the rule and reign of Jesus.
- [To feel worry or to feed worry](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/22/to-feel-worry-or-to-feed-worry/) - In "To feel worry or to feed worry," Rich Villodas underscores that to feel worry and anxiety are normal parts of feeling human.
- [The money god - still thriving](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/19/the-money-god-still-thriving/) - In "The money god - still thriving," Rich Villodas underscores that the money god still thrives today. Because it promises status and favor.
- [The disorder of our hearts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/20/the-disorder-of-our-hearts/) - In "The disorder of our hearts," Rich Villodas underscores that simplicity mainly involves reducing the disorder of our hearts.
- [A god called mammon - rival god](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/17/a-god-called-mammon-rival-god/) - In "A god called mammon - rival god," Rich Villodas stresses that money is not a passive tool. It's a rival god called mammon.
- [Sucked into a vortex of activity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/16/sucked-into-a-vortex-of-activity/) - In "Sucked into a vortex of activity," Rich Villodas cautions that while busyness makes us feel important, we get sucked into a vortex of activity.
- [Plain, honest speech - standard](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/15/plain-honest-speech-standard/) - In "Plain, honest speech - standard," Rich Villodas describes the narrow path as a place where plain, honest speech is standard
- [Left untended, anger destroys](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/14/left-untended-anger-destroys/) - In "Left untended, anger destroys" Rich Villodas says that anger, left untended, leads us to internalize messages about ourselves and others.
- [Keeping the anger alive?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/13/keeping-the-anger-alive/) - In "Keeping the anger alive?" Rich Villodas cites Dallas Willard, who notes that we dedicate energy to keeping the anger alive.
- [Gift of anger: strange but true](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/12/gift-of-anger-strange-but-true/) - In "Gift of anger: strange but true," Rich Villodas contents that the gift of anger enables us to appropriately respond to life's injustices.
- [Project either shadow or light](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/11/project-either-shadow-or-light/) - In "Project either shadow or light," Rich Villodas cites Quaker educator and author Parker Palmer, who says a leader will project either shadow or light.
- [Jesus calls out the very best](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/10/jesus-calls-out-the-very-best/) - in "Jesus calls out the very best," Rich Villodas notes that Jesus calls out the very best in His disciples before they demonstrate anything
- [A matter of skill and grit?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/09/a-matter-of-skill-and-grit/) - In "A matter of skill and grit?" Rich Villodas underscores that following Jesus isn't just a matter of skill and grit. You must be with God in prayer.
- [Seasons of Sabbath and fasting](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/08/seasons-of-sabbath-and-fasting/) - In "Seasons of Sabbath and fasting," Rich Villodas asserts that the practice of hiddenness requires seasons of Sabbath and fasting.
- [The locus of God's presence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/07/the-locus-of-gods-presence/) - In "The locus of God's presence," Rich Villodas observes that the corridors of great power aren't the locus of God's presence.
- [A self-congratulatory existence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/06/a-self-congratulatory-existence/) - In "A self-congratulatory existence," Rich Villodas cautions against getting caught up in your own goodness, living a self-congratulatory existence.
- [Virtue signaling - public display](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/05/virtue-signaling-public-display/) - In "Virtue signaling - public display," Rich Villodas defines virtue signaling as a deep desire to display one's goodness to others
- [The most blessed people on earth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/04/the-most-blessed-people-on-earth/) - In "The most blessed people on earth," Rich Villodas notes that, even in discomfort, following Jesus place you among the most blessed people on earth.
- [Pure in heart: God-attentiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/03/pure-in-heart-god-attentiveness/) - In "Pure in heart: God-attentiveness," Rich Villodas stresses the need to behold God in prayer and stillness, to be pure in heart.
- [Prevenient mercy of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/02/prevenient-mercy-of-god/) - In "The prevenient mercy of God," Rich Villodas stresses that God's mercy is prevenient. It moves toward us before we return the favor.
- [More than a crutch for the weak](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/01/more-than-a-crutch-for-the-weak/) - In "More than a crutch for the weak," Rich Villodas underscores that Christianity is more than a crutch for the weak. We need a power outside ourselves
- [Accepted and approved by God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/30/accepted-and-approved-by-god/) - In "Accepted and approved by God," Rich Villodas defines to be blessed as being accepted and approved by God, circumstances notwithstanding.
- [Unholy trinity: me, myself, and I](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/29/unholy-trinity-me-myself-and-i/) - In "Unholy trinity: me, myself, and I" Rich Villodas underscores that modern freedom is oriented around the unholy trinity of me, myself, and I.
- [A stranger to yourself?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/28/a-stranger-to-yourself/) - In "A stranger to yourself?" Rich Villodas says it's impossible to know God deeply while being a stranger to yourself. God calls us deeper.
- [Christian amphibians](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/27/christian-amphibians/) - In "Christian amphibians," Rich Villodas asserts that many of us try to live like Christian amphibians, half in and half out. But Jesus wants all of us
- [A spaciousness for the soul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/26/a-spaciousness-for-the-soul/) - In "A spaciousness for the soul," Rich Villodas stresses that as we follow the narrow path of Jesus, we experience a spaciousness of the soul.
- [The Joy Challenge: Discover . . .](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/25/the-joy-challenge-discover/) - "The Joy Challenge" by Pastor Randy Frazee is the latest addition to Cronw of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [Our point of need - help](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/24/our-point-of-need-help/) - In "Our point of need - help," Randy Frazee encourages us to let other people help us at our point of need. It lifts our burden.
- [Three walnuts or no walnuts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/23/three-walnuts-or-no-walnuts/) - In "Three walnuts or no walnuts," Randy Frazee quips that, in a nutshell, whether you have three walnuts or no walnuts, you're good.
- [The stranglehold of worry](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/22/the-stranglehold-of-worry/) - In "The stranglehold of worry," Randy Frazee notes that in Philippians 4 Paul invites us to rid ourselves of the stranglehold of worry.
- [A heavy burden - hate](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/21/a-heavy-burden-hate/) - In "A heavy burden - hate," Randy Frazee cites Dr. Dan Baker, who stresses that, from a medical perspective, hate is a heavy burden.
- [More caught than taught](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/20/more-caught-than-taught/) - In "More caught than taught," Randy Frazee asserts that the Christian life is more caught than taught as we observe the lives of our spiritual mentors.
- [The small tick called sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/19/the-small-tick-called-sin/) - In "The small tick called sin," Randy Frazee acknowledges that some days the tick of sin penetrates our skin and gets the best of us.
- [New modus operandi - Paul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/18/new-modus-operandi-paul/) - In "New modus operandi," Randy Frazee says Paul's new modus operandi involved plumbing the depths of his relationship with Jesus
- [A position-based model: life shift](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/17/a-position-based-model-life-shift/) - In "A position-based model: life shift," Randy Frazee notes that the apostle Paul shifted his life to a position-based model.
- [Recalculate what really matters](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/15/recalculate-what-really-matters/) - In "Recalculate what really matters," Randy Frazee says that in order to increase our joy despite our past, we need to recalculate what really matters.
- [Proactively practicing joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/14/proactively-practicing-joy/) - In "Proactively practicing joy," Randy Frazee counsels that it is very dangerous to go through a day without proactively practicing joy.
- [Increased inner joy - currency](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/13/increased-inner-joy-currency/) - In "Increased inner joy - currency," Randy Frazee says losing something for the sake of others usually results in the currency of increased inner joy.
- [Sharing good news raises joy levels](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/12/sharing-good-news-raises-joy-levels/) - In "Sharing good news raises joy levels," Randy Frazee underscores that sharing good news with someone raises joy levels and strengthens bonds.
- [Wonderful access point to joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/11/wonderful-access-point-to-joy/) - In "Wonderful access point to joy," Randy Frazee underscores that very few people discover the wonderful access point to joy
- [This constellation of gladness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/10/this-constellation-of-gladness/) - In "This constellation of gladness," Randy Frazee talks about how Paul invited the Philippian church, and us, to join him in this constellation of gladness.
- ["Experiential, positional - salvation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/09/experiential-positional-salvation/) - In "Experiential, positional - salvation," Randy Frazee underscores that salvation is experiential as well as positional.
- [Live differently than before](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/06/live-differently-than-before/) - In "Live differently than before," Randy Frazee notes that the comfort and compassion we received in hard times should motivate us to live differently
- [The clarity of love = truth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/10/18/the-clarity-of-love-truth/) - In "The clarity of love = truth," Rich Villodas cites Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who underscored that "truth is either the clarity of love or it is nothing."
- [Shine for all to see](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/19/shine-for-all-to-see/) - "Shine for all to see" is the August Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion Ministries and includes the hymn, "Blest are They."
- [Find fresh hope and purpose](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/22/find-fresh-hope-and-purpose/) - "Find fresh hope and purpose" is the July Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Church of God, Elect and Glorious."
- [High God esteem = humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/08/high-god-esteem-humility/) - In "High God esteem = humility," Randy Frazee underscores that biblical humility flows out of person with high God esteem, not low self-esteem,
- [The bad behavior of others](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/07/the-bad-behavior-of-others/) - In "The bad behavior of others," Randy Frazee states that when people don't do their part, we must decide our response to the bad behavior of others.
- [Cope with hope = bottom line](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/05/cope-with-hope-bottom-line/) - In "Cope with hope = bottom line," Randy Frazee underscores that the bottom line is we can cope with hope when we embrace our no-lose situation.
- [The telescope and the microscope](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/04/the-telescope-and-the-microscope/) - In "The telescope and the microscope," Randy Frazee cites Warren Wiersbe, who compares Christians to the telescope and the microscope.
- [Breath prayer - abide with God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/18/breath-prayer-abide-with-god/) - In "Breath prayer - abide with God," Summer Joy Gross describes breath prayer as a simple contemplative prayer that helps us to abide in God.
- [Always speaking life - Emmanuel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/16/always-speaking-life-emmanuel/) - In "Always speaking life - Emmanuel," Summer Joy Gross underscores that Emmanuel is always speaking life, shining a spotlight on Scripture
- [The content of the preaching](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/03/the-content-of-the-preaching/) - In "The content of the preaching," Randy Frazee cites F. F. Bruce, who stresses that what matters most is the content of the preaching.
- [Focused on the mission](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/02/focused-on-the-mission/) - In "Focused on the mission," Randy Frazee stresses that Paul experienced more joy than most of us, because he was focused on the mission
- [Without adding wax - pure love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/09/01/without-adding-wax-pure-love/) - In "Without adding wax - pure love," Randy Frazee notes that our word sincere come from sine-cera, which means without adding wax.
- [Joy conditioning a memory](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/31/joy-conditioning-a-memory/) - In "Joy conditioning a memory," Randy Frazee discusses the benefits of joy conditioning, when you recall the good things someone did for you.
- [Human earthquakes - Richter scale](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/30/human-earthquakes-richter-scale/) - In "Human earthquakes - Richter scale," Randy Frazee notes that the apostle Paul is right up there with Job on the Richter scale of human earthquakes.
- [Tracing the concept of joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/29/tracing-the-concept-of-joy/) - In "Tracing the concept of joy," Randy Frazee cites Dr. Larry Richards, who discusses the benefits of tracing the concept of joy throughout the Bible.
- [Joy robbers versus Paul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/28/joy-robbers-versus-paul/) - In "Joy robbers versus Paul," Randy Frazee cautions against allowing joy robbers to come in and steal that sweet sense of inner contentment.
- [Treatise on joy - Philippians](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/27/treatise-on-joy-philippians/) - In "Treatise on joy - Philippians," Randy Frazee notes that Paul wrote Philippians, a treatise on joy, while imprisoned - number one book on joy in the Bible.
- [The Emmanuel Promise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/26/the-emmanuel-promise/) - "The Emmanuel Promise" by Summer Joy Gross is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [Crying out - bid for attachment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/25/crying-out-bid-for-attachment/) - In "Crying out - bid for attachment," Summer Joy Gross describes crying out as the key to our bond with God, a bid for attachment.
- [Imagination released from prison](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/24/imagination-released-from-prison/) - In "Imagination released from prison," Summer Joy Gross cites Protestant theologian A. W. Tozer, who longs to see imagination released from its prision.
- [Holy imagination - meet Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/23/holy-imagination-meet-jesus/) - In "Holy imagination - meet Jesus," Summer Joy Gross states that we encounter Jesus through the holy imagination in the Gospels.
- [Culture of hurry detox](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/22/culture-of-hurry-detox/) - In "Culture of hurry detox," Summer Joy Gross stresses that silence serves as part of our detox against our culture of hurry.
- [Intentional silence - scary?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/21/intentional-silence-scary/) - In "Intentional silence - scary?" Summer Joy Gross notes that, even for a mature Christian, intentional silence can feel scary or superfluous.
- [Abiding communion with Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/20/abiding-communion-with-jesus/) - In "Abiding communion with Jesus," Summer Joy Gross underscores that the kingdom of God is about coming into abiding communion with Jesus.
- [Rest, Receive, Respond](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/17/rest-receive-respond/) - In "Rest, Receive, Respond" Summer Joy Gross talks about the contemplative practice of the 3 R's -- Rest, Receive, Respond.
- [Lectio Divina - prayerful reading](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/15/lectio-divina-prayerful-reading/) - In "Lectio Divina - prayerful reading," Summer Joy Gross describes Lectio Divina as a relational, prayerful reading of the Word.
- [Wrapped tight in behaviors](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/13/wrapped-tight-in-behaviors/) - In "Wrapped tight in behaviors," Summer Joy Gross notes that, despite Christ's death on the cross, we're wrapped tight in behaviors that bind us.
- [Our original design - reclaim](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/14/our-original-design-reclaim/) - In "Our original design - reclaim," Summer Joy Gross cites Marilyn Vancil, who stresses that God's restoration project is to reclaim our original design.
- [Prayer postures = invitations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/12/prayer-postures-invitations/) - In "Prayer postures = invitations," Summer Joy Gross sees prayer postures as deep invitations to stay present to deep inner work
- [A world of beeps and buzzes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/11/a-world-of-beeps-and-buzzes/) - In "A world of beeps and buzzes," Summer Joy Gross notes the struggle prayer has become in a world of beeps and buzzes. Our bodies were meant for prayer.
- [Present moment awareness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/10/present-moment-awareness/) - In "Present moment awareness," Summer Joy Gross discusses Monday Morning Practical, a way to foster present moment awareness.
- [Uninterrupted symphony of praise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/09/uninterrupted-symphony-of-praise/) - In "Uninterrupted symphony of praise," Summer Joy Gross exhorts us to be quiet enough to attend to the uninterrupted symphony of praise.
- [Locked doors - no hindrance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/08/locked-doors-no-hindrance/) - In "Locked doors - no hindrance," Summer Joy Gross underscores that our Emmanuel is not hindered by locked doors. As His disciples found out post-resurrection.
- [As easy as breathing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/07/as-easy-as-breathing/) - In "As easy as breathing," Summer Joy Gross cites Oswald Chambers, who once wrote that God's presence is as easy as breathing to remember.
- [He holds hope, we hold questions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/06/he-holds-hope-we-hold-questions/) - In "He holds hope, we hold questions." Summer Joy Gross notes God's spacious attention. Consequently, He holds hope while we hold only questions
- [Practical atheists?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/05/practical-atheists/) - In "Practical atheists?" Summer Joy Gross says that most of us are practical atheists, because we go through our days without a full sense of God's presence.
- [Spiritual object constancy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/04/spiritual-object-constancy/) - In "Spiritual object constancy," Summer Joy Gross cites Dr. Henry Cloud, who discusses how we build a sense of spiritual object constancy.
- [Artificial idol - tight grip](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/03/artificial-idol-tight-grip/) - In "Artificial idol - tight grip," Summer Joy Gross states that during our Dark Night we come to realize that we had a tight grip on an artificial idol.
- [When we think He is doing least](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/02/when-we-think-he-is-doing-least/) - In "When we think He is doing least," Summer Joy Gross cites C. S. Lewis, who posits that when we think He is doing least, God may be doing the most.
- [Slow to chide and swift to bless](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/17/slow-to-chide-swift-to-bless/) - "Slow to chide and swift to bless" is the June Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven."
- [Hear the cry of our heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/08/01/hear-the-cry-of-our-heart/) - In "Hear the cry of our heart," Summer Joy Gross underscores that our Emmanuel, present with us now, desires to hear the cry of our heart.
- [No higher commendation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/18/no-higher-commendation/) - In "No higher commendation," Mark Batterson underscores that there's no higher commendation than "Well done." The epitaph every Christian wants
- [Secure attachment with God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/21/secure-attachment-with-god/) - In "Secure attachment with God," Summer Joy Gross poses a question we must ask if we seek a secure attachment with God, the promise of Emmanuel.
- [Our Emmanuel - always available](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/31/our-emmanuel-always-available/) - In "Our Emmanuel - always available," Summer Joy Gross underscores that our Emmanuel is always available and His care is always at hand.
- [Believing the lies of scarcity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/30/believing-the-lies-of-scarcity/) - In "Believing the lies of scarcity," Summer Joy Gross wonders how long it takes us, as opposed to Adam and Eve, to believe the lies of scarcity.
- [Unfailing mercy of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/29/unfailing-mercy-of-god/) - In "Unfailing mercy of God," Summer Joy Gross cites Thomas Merton, who states that one's sincerity is based on confidence in the unfailing mercy of God
- [Inner perfection - the desire](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/28/inner-perfection-the-desire/) - In "Inner perfection - the desire," Summer Joy Gross stresses that an avoidant person's desire for inner perfection keeps them from vulnerability.
- [Leave and cleave - the desert](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/27/leave-and-cleave-the-desert/) - In "Leave and cleave - the desert," Summer Joy Gross asserts that the desert is oddly your friend, because that's where you learn to leave and cleave.
- [Dance of giving and receiving](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/26/dance-of-giving-and-receiving/) - In "Dance of giving and receiving," Summer Joy Gross underscores that God created us to be engages in a dance of giving and receiving
- [Gold stars - practicing perfect](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/25/gold-stars-practicing-perfect/) - In "Gold stars - practicing perfect," Summer Joy Gross remembers repeating memory verses for gold stars, practicing perfect.
- [God's delight - trivial desire?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/24/gods-delight-trivial-desire/) - In "God's delight - trivial desire?" Summer Joy Gross underscores that receiving God's delight is paramount, not a trivial desire.
- [Holding a little tin cup?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/23/holding-a-little-tin-cup/) - In "Holding a little tin cup," Summer Joy Gross notes we often sit outside the kingdom of God holding a little tin cup. But the King's arms are wide open.
- [A safe pair of eyes to land on](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/20/a-safe-pair-of-eyes-to-land-on/) - In "A safe pair of eyes to land on," Summer Joy Gross stresses that when we're moving into fight-or-flight, we all need a safe pair of eyes to land on.
- [A Trip around the Sun](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/19/a-trip-around-the-sun/) - "A Trip around the Sun" by Mark Batterson and Richard Foth is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [Intangible things = legacy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/17/intangible-things-legacy/) - In "Intangible things = legacy," Mark Batterson defines a legacy as the intangible things we leave behind. Legacy captures the essence of a person.
- [Measured in minutes - life?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/16/measured-in-minutes-life/) - In "Measured in minutes - life?" Mark Batterson underscores that life isn't measured in minutes. What really matters is the stewardship of moments.
- [Touched by the eternal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/15/touched-by-the-eternal/) - In "Touched by the eternal," Dick Foth discusses what happens when we're touched by the eternal. He also tells the story of Billy Borden .
- [Success is succession](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/14/success-is-succession/) - In "Success is succession," Mark Batterson underscores that in his book, success is succession. Your influence must extend beyond you
- [The distillation of experience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/13/the-distillation-of-experience/) - In "The distillation of experience," Dick Foth defines wisdom as the distillation of experience, the process of years yielded to God.
- [God's idea of abundance?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/14/gods-idea-of-abundance/) - In "God's idea of abundance?" Sara Hagerty states that we often imagine God's idea of abundance as an exaggerated version of ours.
- [Spiritual astigmatisms](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/20/spiritual-astigmatisms/) - In "Spiritual astigmatisms," Mark Batterson connects the defining moments in our life with spiritual astigmatism. It determines our outlook on life.
- [Unique translation of Scripture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/19/unique-translation-of-scripture/) - In "Unique translation of Scripture," Mark Batterson underscores that your life is a unique translation of Scripture. Your life is your sermon.
- [The Gift of Limitations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/18/the-gift-of-limitations/) - "The Gift of Limitations: Finding Beauty in Your Boundaries" by Sara Hagerty is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's annotated bibliography.
- [The boundaries we resent](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/16/the-boundaries-we-resent/) - In "The boundaries we resent," Sara Hagerty observes that within the boundaries we resent is a life that's limitless in God -- a paradox
- [The right cloud formation?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/12/the-right-cloud-formation/) - In "The right cloud formation?" Mark Batterson counsels that you'll never do anything if you wait for the right cloud formation
- [Imperfect lives impact the world](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/11/imperfect-lives-impact-the-world/) - In "Imperfect lives impact the world," Dick Foth underscores our need to know that imperfect people leading imperfect lives can still impact the world.
- [Bumping into someone's anointing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/10/bumping-into-someones-anointing/) - In "Bumping into someone's anointing," Mark Batterson says when people you admire start to rub off on you, you're bumping into someone's anointing.
- [A grateful eye or a critical eye?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/09/a-grateful-eye-or-a-critical-eye/) - In "A grateful eye or a critical eye?" Mark Batterson notes that people with a grateful eye find something to celebrate, even in the worst of circumstances.
- [Between our ears - decisions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/08/between-our-ears-decisions/) - In "Between our ears - decisions," Dick Foth says decisions about how easily offended we choose to be occur between our ears.
- [The inverted gospel - unfulfilling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/07/the-inverted-gospel-unfulfilling/) - In "The inverted gospel - unfulfilling," Mark Batterson asserts that most people try to lead rather than follow Jesus. Mark calls that the inverted gospel.
- [Another's trash = God's treasure](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/06/anothers-trash-gods-treasure/) - In "Another's trash = God's treasure." Dick Foth says that loving God changes our trajectory. It helps us see another's trash as God's treasure
- [Our misconceptions about God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/05/our-misconceptions-about-god/) - In "Our misconceptions about God," Mark Batterson underscores that our misconceptions about God lead to misconceptions about ourselves.
- [An indelible imprint on our souls](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/04/an-indelible-imprint-on-our-souls/) - In "An indelible imprint on our souls," Dick Foth says surprises with the touch of God on them leave an indelible imprint on our souls.
- [Not performance based love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/03/not-performance-based-love/) - In "Not performance based love," Mark Batterson underscore that there is something profound about a love that is not performance based love
- [The sure foundation and cornerstone](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/20/the-sure-foundation-and-cornerstone/) - "The sure foundation and cornerstone" is the May Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation."
- [Accurately estimate need](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/02/accurately-estimate-need/) - In "Accurately estimate need," Dick Foth says love involves the ability to accurately estimate and adequately supply another person's need.
- [Seeking success or seeking God?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/07/01/seeking-success-or-seeking-god/) - In "Seeking success or seeking God?" Mark Batterson underscores that life is not about seeking success but seeking God. When you seek God success follows.
- [Desire moves mountains](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/30/desire-moves-mountains/) - In "Desire moves mountains," Dick Foth underscores that desire moves mountains as well as breaks down walls. And Jesus outdoes us every time.
- [The leading cause of failure](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/29/the-leading-cause-of-failure/) - In "The leading cause of failure," Mark Batterson asserts that mismanaged success serves as the leading cause of failure. Don't play to lose
- [Values hearts over titles - God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/28/values-hearts-over-titles-god/) - In "Values hearts over titles - God," Dick Foth underscores that we serve a God who values hearts over titles. He loves turning our perspectives inside out.
- [Prophetic words - nicknames](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/27/prophetic-words-nicknames/) - In "Prophetic words - nicknames," Mark Batterson underscores that the nicknames Jesus gave His disciples were more prescriptive than descriptive.
- [Grand company - Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/26/grand-company-jesus/) - In "Grand company - Jesus," Dick Foth underscores that we're designed for the grand company of Jesus. We become more that we could ever be by ourselves.
- [Middle-of-the-marketplace Messiah](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/25/middle-of-the-marketplace-messiah/) - In "Middle-of-the-marketplace Messiah," Mark Batterson stresses that Jesus rubbed elbows with the masses as a middle-of-the-marketplace Messiah.
- [Our common ground - Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/24/our-common-ground-jesus/) - In "Our common ground - Jesus," Dick Foth underscores that Jesus is our common ground. Jesus swapped His righteousness for our wrongness
- [Fight for joy, sad, angry, fear](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/12/fight-for-joy-sad-angry-fear/) - In "Fight for joy, sad, angry, fear" Jennifer Allen exhorts us to fight for joy. But also to fight for sad and angry and fear.
- [Measured in moments, not minutes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/23/measured-in-moments-not-minutes/) - In "Measure in moments, not minutes," Mark Batterson stresses that our lives are measured in moments. Moments when minutes stand still.
- [Saturate those trips around the sun](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/22/saturate-those-trips-around-the-sun/) - In "Saturate those trips around the sun," Dick Foth stresses that to saturate those trips around the sun adds richness and depth to our days.
- [Hardwired for an adventure](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/21/hardwired-for-an-adventure/) - In "Hardwired for an adventure," Mark Batterson underscores that God hardwired you for an adventure that's as unique as you are,.
- [Emotionally hit a wall](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/07/emotionally-hit-a-wall/) - In "Emotionally hit a wall," Jennifer Allen says many times we emotionally hit a wall because everything is so broken. God can set us free from our brokenness.
- [Watching or worshipping?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/06/watching-or-worshipping/) - In "Watching or worshipping," Kyle Idleman questions whether we are watching or worshipping entertainment to make it an idol in our lives
- [The flashes of His face](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/15/the-flashes-of-his-face/) - in "The flashes of His face," Sara Hagerty states that the flashes of His face represent the best of life within the fence line.
- [God orchestrates the fence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/13/god-orchestrates-the-fence/) - In "God orchestrates the fence," Sara Hagerty underscores that God orchestrates the fence and the details of your life. He lays the blueprint.
- [Cultivated a better rest](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/12/cultivated-a-better-rest/) - In "Cultivated a better rest," Sara Hagerty says those with the ability to be present and alive in their circumstances cultivated a better rest.
- [His Word encircles my thoughts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/11/his-word-encircles-my-thoughts/) - In "His Word encircles my thoughts," Sara Hagerty underscores that His Word doesn't just teach our thoughts, but it also encircles them.
- [The best sermon, book, or podcast](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/10/the-best-sermon-book-or-podcast/) - In "The best sermon, book, or podcast" Sara Hagerty asserts that even the best sermon cannot change how we view the fence line.
- [From the didactic to the personal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/09/from-the-didactic-to-the-personal/) - In "From the didactic to the personal," Sara Hagerty stresses the importance of God's Word moving from the didactic to the personal.
- [Murky thoughts and questions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/08/murky-thoughts-and-questions/) - In "Murky thoughts and questions," Sara Hagerty states that she comes to Jesus filled up with murky thoughts and questions about her life and heart.
- [Look small and live small](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/07/look-small-and-live-small/) - In "Look small and live small," Sara Hagerty stresses that to move more slowly, we need to look small and live small. Let our humanity boundary us.
- [Our fence lines = captivity?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/17/our-fence-lines-captivity/) - In "Our fence lines = captivity? Sara Hagerty underscores that in passive, subtle ways, we see our fence lines as captivity.
- [The boundaries of the seasons](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/19/the-boundaries-of-seasons/) - In "The boundaries of the seasons," Sara Hagerty stresses that the boundaries of seasons mirror the life within limits that our Father grants.
- [Slower still - invitation, gift](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/06/slower-still-invitation-gift/) - In "Slower still - invitation, gift" Sara Hagerty stresses that God invites us to be slower still when what we have fails to stretch over what we need
- [A gentle process of excavating](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/05/a-gentle-process-of-excavating/) - In "A gentle process of excavating," Sara Hagerty notes that Jesus cares about the inner workings of our hearts, a gentle process of excavating.
- [Hover around the circumstances](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/04/hover-around-the-circumstances/) - In "Hover around the circumstances," Sara Hagerty notes our tendency to hover around the circumstances that highlight our limitations.
- [An undercurrent of peace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/03/an-undercurrent-of-peace/) - In "An undercurrent of peace," Sara Hagerty wonders what an undercurrent of peace would look like in a world of sin, strife, and nailbiting.
- [See that smile on my Savior's face](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/22/see-that-smile-on-my-saviors-face/) - "See that smile on my Savior's face" is the April Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the song "Running Home" by Cochren and Co.
- [Watchfulness - full of wonder](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/02/watchfulness-full-of-wonder/) - In "Watchfulness - full of wonder," Sara Hagerty underscores that watchfulness can be full of wonder and make us children again.
- [Bright and strong and beautiful](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/06/01/bright-and-strong-and-beautiful/) - In "Bright and strong and beautiful," Sara Hagerty cites C. S. Lewis, who says we need to be broken in order to become bright and strong and beautiful
- [The sigh of life = surrender](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/31/the-sigh-of-life-surrender/) - In "The sigh of life = surrender," Sara Hagerty equates surrender with the sigh of life, the moment when the Holy Spirit overshadows.
- [Rambling river of reprieve](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/30/rambling-river-of-reprieve/) - In "Rambling river of reprieve," Sara Hagerty observes that grief has a course, like a rambling river that carves a path and alters the earth.
- [Minor paper cuts of life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/29/minor-paper-cuts-of-life/) - In "Minor paper cuts of life," Sara Hagerty counsels against skipping the step of grieving life's minor paper cuts. We miss Jesus' nearness.
- [Touchstones in our stories](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/28/touchstones-in-our-stories/) - In "Touchstones in our stories," Sara Hagerty exhorts us to sit with the touchstones in our stories, rather than swiftly move on from them
- [The walk through the valley](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/27/the-walk-through-the-valley/) - In "The walk through the valley," Sara Hagerty underscores that the walk through the valley of the shadow of death enables us to find the Good Shepherd.
- [False peace of avoidance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/26/false-peace-of-avoidance/) - In "False peace of avoidance," Sara Hagerty observes that avoidance can be peaceful for a while. But avoidance is a false peace
- [Reach lower than the sky](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/25/reach-lower-than-the-sky/) - In "Reach lower than the sky," Sara Hagerty notes that when we get shifty and want something quicker than God intends, we reach lower than the sky.
- [This God who reaches within](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/24/this-god-who-reaches-within/) - In "This God who reaches within," Sara Hagerty talks about this God who reaches within our hearts to meet us with wonder and delight.
- [Brushes with God: the blueprint](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/23/brushes-with-god-the-blueprint/) - In "Brushes with God: the blueprint," Sara Hagerty stresses that brushes with God enable us to see the blueprint that was meant to be
- [Shine through the scars](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/22/shine-through-the-scars/) - In "Shine through the scars," Sara Hagerty cautions against hiding our limitations, that perhaps God intends His light to shine through the scars.
- [The inner rooms of our hearts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/21/the-inner-rooms-of-our-hearts/) - In "The inner rooms of our hearts," Sara Hagerty cites Curt Thompson, who urges us to be present when God searches the inner rooms of our hearts
- [Christian race - press on](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/18/christian-race-press-on/) - In "Christian race - press on," Sara Hagerty cautions that so many people run their Christian race convinced they know the goal.
- [Work with our emotions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/29/work-with-our-emotions/) - In "Work with our emotions," Jennifer Allen underscores that we want to work with our emotions, rather than against them.
- [Emotional wholeness and maturity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/30/emotional-wholeness-and-maturity/) - In "Emotional wholeness and maturity," Jennifer Allen underscores that emotional wholeness begins by noticing and naming what we feel
- [Okay or Not Okay - tune in](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/28/okay-or-not-okay-tune-in/) - In "Okay or Not Okay - tune in," Jennifer Allen discusses what to do if you are having trouble figuring out whether you are Okay or Not Okay.
- [Kicked the problem up the path](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/27/kicked-the-problem-up-the-path/) - In "Kicked the problem up the path," Jennifer Allen notes what happens when we've kicked the problem up the path a few feet. It waits for us.
- [Perfectly tucked into the right places](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/26/perfectly-tucked-into-the-right-places/) - In "Perfectly tucked into the right places," Jennifer Allen anticipates no future for us where our emotions are perfectly tucked into the right places.
- [Live in the way of love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/25/live-in-the-way-of-love/) - In "Live in the way of love," Jennifer Allen cites Dr. Curt Thompson, who describes what is required to live in the way of love.
- [Our ultimate security](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/24/our-ultimate-security/) - In "Our ultimate security," Jennifer Allen stresses that "our ultimate security rests wholly and completely on who God is. He is why we're okay."
- [Permission to feel it all](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/23/permission-to-feel-it-all/) - In "Permission to feel it all," Jennifer Allen underscores that David and the Psalms give us permission to feel it all, with full confidence in God.
- [Missing the gifts of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/21/missing-the-gifts-of-god/) - In "Missing the gifts of God," Jennifer Allen counsels that when we employ coping mechanisms, we are missing the gifts of God.
- [Engage directly or resist](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/20/engage-directly-or-resist/) - In "Engage directly or resist," Jennifer Allen says we can engage directly with our overwhelming feelings and take them to God, or we can resist
- [Numb actually sounds appealing?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/19/numb-actually-sounds-appealing/) - In "Numb actually sounds appealing," Jennifer Allen counsels that when numb actually sounds appealing, remember you have a God who comes close to you
- [Starving for compassion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/18/starving-for-compassion/) - In "Starving for compassion," Jennifer Allen underscores that we're all starving for compassion and that Jesus wants to provide it.
- [Live and thrive - God's design](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/17/live-and-thrive-gods-design/) - In "Live and thrive - God's design," Jennifer Allen underscores that God designed the patterns and ways we are to live and thrive.
- [Emotions flood body and soul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/16/emotions-flood-body-and-soul/) - In "Emotions flood body and soul," Jennifer Allen stresses that emotions flood through our bodies and souls - our mind, will and emotions.
- [Knot theory- hold up to the light](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/15/knot-theory-hold-up-to-the-light/) - In "Knot theory - hold up to the light," Jennifer Allen introduces knot theory, an entire field of mathematical study devoted to the study of knots.
- [Smiley faces on empty shells](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/14/smiley-faces-on-empty-shells/) - In "Smiley faces on empty shells," Jennifer Allen cites Peter Scazzero, who warns against transforming slowly into smiley faces on empty shells
- [Control you vs. tell you something](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/13/control-you-vs-tell-you-something/) - In "Control you vs. tell you something," Jennifer Allen underscores that your feelings are trying to tell you something. Not control you.
- [Stuffing feelings - effective?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/12/stuffing-feelings-effective/) - In "Stuffing feelings - effective?" Jennifer Allen stresses that even if you think you're great at stuffing feelings, those feelings don't go quietly.
- [Divine calculation - the cross?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/11/divine-calculation-the-cross/) - In "Divine calculation - the cross?" Max Lucado stresses that the cross isn't a divine calculation or a cold theological principle.
- [A shouting match with Satan?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/10/a-shouting-match-with-satan/) - In "A shouting match with Satan," Max Lucado underscores that God never enters into a shouting match with Satan. Because truth does not scream.
- [Rubber of faith, road of reality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/09/rubber-of-faith-road-of-reality/) - In "Rubber of faith, road of reality" Max Lucado underscores that, for the Roman centurion at Jesus' cross, the rubber of faith met the road of reality.
- [Signing on Jesus' credit card](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/08/signing-on-jesus-credit-card/) - In "Signing on Jesus' credit card," Max Lucado underscores that all of us are signing on Jesus' credit card. Because only Jesus saves us.
- [Careful examination of Calvary](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/07/careful-examination-of-calvary/) - In "Careful examination of Calvary," Mac Lucado asserts that any serious study of the Christian claim involves a careful examination of Calvary
- [Seeing as Jesus Sees](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/06/seeing-as-jesus-sees/) - "Seeing as Jesus Sees" by Alan Wright, lead pastor of Reynolda Church, is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's Annotated Bibliography.
- [Veils our spiritual sight](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/05/veils-our-spiritual-sight/) - In "Veils our spiritual sight," Alan Wright says reading the Bible with a performance-based mentality veils our spiritual sight
- [Far better things ahead](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/16/far-better-things-ahead/) - In "Far better things ahead," Sara Hagerty talks about the posture necessary to believe that there are "far better things ahead."
- [Fence line same, heart different](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/15/fence-line-same-heart-different/) - In "Fence line same, heart different" Sara Hagerty sees a day ahead where the fence line looks the same, but our hearts are different.
- [Invisible but unyielding fences](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/14/invisible-but-unyielding-fences/) - In "Invisible but unyielding fences," Sara Hagerty compares our limitations to invisible but unyielding fences that we're forced to notice.
- [Untangle Your Emotions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/13/untangle-your-emotions/) - "Untangle Your Emotions" by Jennifer Allen is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [The shades of existence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/11/the-shades-of-existence/) - In "The shades of existence," Jennifer Allen says that when we truly feel our feelings we get all the shades of existence, not just the gray.
- [The aim of the person of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/10/the-aim-of-the-person-of-faith/) - In "The aim of the person of faith," Jennifer Allen cites Eugene Peterson, who wrote beautifully about the aim of the person of faith
- [Mangled mess of Christmas lights](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/09/mangled-mess-of-christmas-lights/) - In "Mangled mess of Christmas lights," Jennifer Allen notes the potential for a mangled mess of unusable Christmas lights to become something beautiful.
- [That sweater of unfelt feelings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/08/that-sweater-of-unfelt-feelings/) - In "That sweater of unfelt feelings," Jennifer Allen underscores that that sweater of unfelt feelings needs to come unraveled. It keeps no one warm
- [Let alleluias leap - amen!](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/25/let-alleluias-leap-amen/) - "Let alleluias leap - amen! is the Easter Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the hymn "Our Paschal Lamb, That Sets Us Free."
- [The chaotic knots in our souls](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/06/the-chaotic-knots-in-our-souls/) - In "The chaotic knots in our souls," Jennifer Allen underscores that a relationship with God untangles the chaotic knots in our souls
- [What people actually need](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/05/what-people-need-actually/) - In "What people actually need," Jennifer Allen stresses that what people actually need is to feel safe and loved and seen. Most of us know the right answers.
- [Landing spot or building season](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/04/landing-spot-or-building-season/) - In "Landing spot or building season," Jennifer Allen counsels against viewing expressing your feelings as a landing spot where you remain forever.
- [Emotional acceptance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/03/emotional-acceptance/) - In "Emotional acceptance," Jennifer Allen cites Dr. Brett Ford, who sees emotional acceptance as a powerful strategy of emotional regulation.
- [The earnest work of feeling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/02/the-earnest-work-of-feeling/) - In "The earnest work of feeling," Jennifer Allen emphasizes that there will be times when doing the earnest work of feeling isn't the right step for you.
- [Emotional granularity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/05/01/emotional-granularity/) - In "Emotional granularity," Jennifer Allen defines emotional granularity as the ability to use nuanced words to describe your emotional state.
- [Grasp and be gripped by Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/24/grasp-and-be-gripped-by-jesus/) - In "Grasp and be gripped by Jesus," Timothy Keller underscores our need to grasp and be gripped by the saving love of Jesus
- [Repositioning ourselves](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/04/repositioning-ourselves/) - In "Repositioning ourselves," Alan Wright defines repentance as more than turning from sin. It's repositioning ourselves to look with Jesus.
- [Authentic hope or self-absorption](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/03/authentic-hope-or-self-absorption/) - In "Authentic hope or self-absorption" Alan Wright says that authentic hope results from pausing to connect with Christ. Pausing alone isn't enough.
- [Holy moments, ordinary moments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/02/holy-moments-ordinary-moments/) - In "Holy moments, ordinary moments," Alan Wright says when we pause to be with Jesus, holy moments become ordinary moments.
- [Facing your giants - Goliath](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/04/01/facing-your-giants-goliath/) - In "Facing your giants - Goliath," Alan Wright exhorts us to see Goliath as Jesus sees him. Rather than the story being about facing your giants.
- [The storm through Jesus' eyes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/19/the-storm-through-jesus-eyes/) - "The storm through Jesus' eyes" is the February Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the Lenten hymn "Cross of Jesus, Cross of Sorrow>"
- [Rescue story or owner's manual](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/31/rescue-story-or-owners-manual/) - In "Rescue story or owner's manual?" Alan Wright considers it silly and uneventful to read the Bible as an owner's manual. Because the Bible is a rescue story.
- [The Logos - a person to be learned](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/18/the-logos-a-person-to-be-learned/) - In "The Logos - a person to be learned," Timothy Keller stresses that Christianity sees the Logos as a person,, not a concept, to be learned.
- [Instruction manual - the Bible?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/30/instruction-manual-the-bible/) - In "Instruction manual - the Bible?" Alan Wright says many people view the Bible as an essential, God-inspired instruction manual.
- [Spiritual victory - Jesus' eyes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/29/spiritual-victory-jesus-eyes/) - In "Spiritual victory - Jesus' eyes," Alan Wright underscores that spiritual victory takes no sweat. Because it just takes Jesus' eyes
- [Sheep without a shepherd](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/28/sheep-without-a-shepherd/) - In "Sheep without a shepherd," Alan Wright underscores that sheep without a shepherd will always act like sheep without a shepherd
- [Suitable object for our wrath?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/27/suitable-object-for-our-wrath/) - In "Suitable object for our wrath?" Alan Wright notes that part of our flesh wants to be angry and chooses a suitable object for our wrath.
- [Divine double takes - holy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/26/divine-double-takes-holy/) - In "Divine double takes - holy," Alan Wright describes divine double takes as odd and mysterious and wondrous. Looking again at somebody with eyes of love.
- [Blessing buoys and strengthens](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/24/blessing-buoys-and-strengthens/) - In "Blessing buoys and strengthens," Alan Wright underscores that blessing buoys and strengthens and empowers until you can walk on your own.
- [Affirming vision - blessing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/23/affirming-vision-blessing/) - In "Affirming vision - blessing," Alan Wright says sharing an affirming vision in someone's life releases the power of blessing.
- [Hear Jesus' whisper - draw near](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/22/hear-jesus-whisper-draw-near/) - In "Hear Jesus' whisper - draw near," Alan Wright exhorts us to draw near enough to hear Jesus' whisper and ask how He sees another person.
- [See past outward flaws](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/21/see-past-outward-flaws/) - In "See past outward flaws," Alan Wright underscores that Jesus wants to help us see past the outward flaws of people, without overlooking iniquity.
- [Glossing over sin never heals](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/20/glossing-over-sin-never-heals/) - In "Glossing over sin never heals," Alan Wright underscores that glossing over sin never heals inward shame. Downplaying sin is like an ill-applied salve.
- [Envision your sin erased](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/19/envision-your-sin-erased/) - In "Envision your sin erased," Alan Wright stresses your need to envision your sin erased by Jesus' intervention. Don't downplay your sin or brood over it.
- [A practice for a lifetime](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/18/a-practice-for-a-lifetime/) - In "A practice for a lifetime," Alan Wright underscores that learning to look at life through Jesus' eyes is a practice for a lifetime.
- [His assignments = privileges](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/17/his-assignments-privileges/) - In "His assignments = privileges," Alan Wright stresses that His assignments are more like privileges when we see ourselves through Jesus' eyes.
- [Future fruitfulness - provision](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/16/future-fruitfulness-provision/) - In "Future fruitfulness - provision," Alan Wright stresses that God has provision for our current emptiness as well as our future fruitfulness.
- [Nearsightedness - overlooking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/15/nearsightedness-overlooking/) - In "Nearsightedness - overlooking," Alan Wright states that the trouble with nearsightedness is our failure to know what we might be missing.
- [A transaction with God?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/14/a-transaction-with-god/) - In "A transaction with God?" Alan Wright underscores that we want a relationship with God rather than a transaction with God/
- [Life through Jesus' eyes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/13/life-through-jesus-eyes/) - In "Life through Jesus' eyes," Alan Wright describes life through Jesus' eyes as more than a mere pleasantry, but a gateway to power over darkness.
- [Seeing is what matters](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/12/seeing-is-what-matters/) - In "Seeing is what matters," Alan Wright stresses that our good intentions don't make us better. Because seeing is what matters!
- [Making Sense of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/11/making-sense-of-god/) - "Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical" by the late Timothy Keller is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion's Annotated Bibliography,
- [Concrete fact - the Resurrection](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/10/concrete-fact-the-resurrection/) - In "Concrete fact - Resurrection," Timothy Keller discusses the significance of believing in Christ's Resurrection as a concrete fact
- [With Amazon efficiency?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/22/with-amazon-efficiency/) - "With Amazon efficiency?" is the January Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes a choral version of "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus."
- [Our champion of salvation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/09/our-champion-of-salvation/) - In "Our champion of salvation," Timothy Keller stresses that Jesus' death broke the power of death. And He did so as our champion.
- [Great challenge to human hope](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/08/great-challenge-to-human-hope/) - In "Great challenge to human hope," Timothy Keller stresses that the great challenge of human hope is making sense of death.
- [Look for Christ - find Him](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/07/look-for-christ-find-him/) - In "Look for Christ - find Him," Timothy Keller cites C.S. Lewis, who once wrote that you can look for yourself or you can look for Christ - and find Him.
- [Our primary audience - God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/06/our-primary-audience-god/) - In "Our primary audience - God," Timothy Keller describes God as our primary audience - every moment. He brings us a new integrity as we walk with Him
- [Not achieved but received](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/05/not-achieved-but-received/) - In "Not achieved but received," Timothy Keller underscores that, unlike secular culture a Christian's identity is not achieved but received.
- [Spiritually speaking - no self](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/04/spiritually-speaking-no-self/) - In "Spiritually speaking - no self," Timothy Keller cites Soren Kierkegaard, who stated that, spiritually speaking, secular people have no self before God.
- [Go get your own identity?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/03/go-get-your-own-identity/) - In "Go get your own identity?" Timothy Keller notes that, contrary to traditional culture, today we have to go get our own identity.
- [The search for identity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/10/the-search-for-identity/) - In "The search for identity," Chip Ingram underscores that the search for identity is closely related to the search for significance.
- [Get to the bottom of ourselves](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/02/get-to-the-bottom-of-ourselves/) - In "Get to the bottom of ourselves," Timothy Keller cites Robert Bellah, who says that it's impossible to get to the bottom of ourselves on our own.
- [Forging an identity - traditional](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/03/01/forging-an-identity-traditional/) - In "Forging an identity - traditional," Timothy Keller contrasts the traditional way of forging an identity through connecting with something outside yourself.
- [Our perfect liberation - Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/29/our-perfect-liberation-jesus/) - In "Our perfect liberation - Jesus," Timothy Keller underscores that serving Jesus becomes our perfect liberation and creates a grateful joy.
- [Freedom for or freedom from](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/28/freedom-for-or-freedom-from/) - In "Freedom for or freedom from," Timothy Keller describes positive liberty as freedom for. That you use your freedom to live in a particular way.
- [The harm principle - disingenuous](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/27/the-harm-principle-disingenuous/) - In "The harm principle - disingenuous," Timothy Keller underscores that the harm principle is useless and even disingenuous as a guide
- [Numerous freedoms conflict](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/26/numerous-freedoms-conflict/) - In "Numerous freedoms conflict," Timothy Keller underscores that numerous freedoms exist at the level of lived life. We lose some freedoms to gain others.
- [Freely choose life's limitations?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/25/freely-choose-lifes-limitations/) - in "Freely choose life's limitations?" Timothy Keller underscores that we really don't freely choose most of life's necessary limitations.
- [The ultimate disordered love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/23/the-ultimate-disordered-love/)
- [A long series of choices](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/22/a-long-series-of-choices/) - In "A long series of choices," Timothy Keller cites Francis Spufford, who astutely notes that we arrived at our current state via a long series of choices.
- [A spectrum of experience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/21/a-spectrum-of-experience/) - In "A spectrum of experience," Timothy Keller states that although a spectrum of experience exists, no one is truly happy when they get everything they want.
- [Fades away in the reality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/20/fades-away-in-the-reality/) - In "Fades away in the reality," Timothy Keller cites C. S. Lewis, who wrote that in the first moment of longing, what we grasp at fades away in the reality
- [Inherent meanings - not created](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/17/inherent-meanings-not-created/) - In "Inherent meanings - not created," Timothy Keller stresses that the Christian faith forms the basis for certain inherent meanings that we must accept.
- [Life - simply what you make it?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/16/life-simply-what-you-make-it/) - In "Life - simply what you make it?" Timothy Keller underscores that life isn't simply what you make it. Rather, life often is what it is.
- [Dogmatism, truth, skepticism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/15/dogmatism-truth-skepticism/) - In Dogmatism, truth, skepticism" Timothy Keller cites Blaise Pascal on the concepts of dogmatism, truth, and skepticism as they relate to proof.
- [The supreme love of your heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/14/the-supreme-love-of-your-heart/) - In "The supreme love of your heart," Timothy Keller stresses that Christianity sees the battle as where to direct the supreme love of your heart.
- [Doubt belief A = accept belief B](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/13/doubt-belief-a-accept-belief-b/) - In "Doubt belief A = accept belief B," Timothy Keller stresses that you need the basis of belief B in order to doubt belief A.
- ["From religion to secularism"](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/12/from-religion-to-secularism/) - In "From religion to secularism," Timothy Keller notes the movement from religion to secularism involves a shift to a new set of beliefs.
- [The persistence of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/11/the-persistence-of-faith/) - In "The persistence of faith," Timothy Keller talks about the basis for the persistence of faith for Christians. It's more than emotional need.
- [Arbiter of metaphysics: science?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/10/arbiter-of-metaphysics-sckence/) - In Arbiter of metaphysics: science?" Timothy Keller cites the late neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, who saw problems with science as the arbiter of metaphysics.
- [Dispels with glorious splendor](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2023/12/18/dispels-with-glorious-splendor/) - "Dispels with glorious splendor" is the Christmas Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes Hugo Distler's arrangement of "Lo, How a Rose".
- [Background beliefs re: Christianity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/09/background-beliefs-re-christianity/) - In "Background beliefs re: Christianity," Timothy Keller discusses how our culture presents its background beliefs about Christianity to the public
- [Comprehensive framework = faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/08/comprehensive-framework-faith/) - In "Comprehensive framework = faith," Timothy Keller stresses the importance of Christian faith as a comprehensive framework for all life's choices.
- [Discover Your True Self](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/07/discover-your-true-self/) - "Discover Your True Self" by Chip Ingram is the latest addition to Crown of Compassion Ministries' Annotated Bibliography.
- [Leaning into God's calling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/06/leaning-into-gods-calling/) - In "Leaning into God's calling," Chip Ingram underscores that simply leaning into God's calling radically changes the course of your life.
- [Pull down strongholds](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/05/pull-down-strongholds/) - In "Pull down strongholds," Chip Ingram underscores that we, like the early Church, must pull down strongholds as well as replace them with truth.
- [Holy ambition = specific calling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/04/holy-ambition-specific-calling/) - In "Holy ambition = specific calling," Chip Ingram refers to God's specific calling as a holy ambition. Above all, we all have such a calling within us.
- [Relieving our feelings of angst](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/03/relieving-our-feelings-of-angst/) - In "Relieving our feelings of angst, "Chip Ingram discusses what goes a long way to relieving our feelings of angst. He also cites Isaiah 40:26.
- [Paralyzing effect of hopelessness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/02/paralyzing-effect-of-hopelessness/) - In "Paralyzing effect of hopelessness," Chip Ingram encourages you to confront and fight the paralyzing effect of hopelessness.
- [Fabricated meaning of life?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/02/01/fabricated-meaning-of-life/) - In "Fabricated meaning of life?" Chip Ingram cautions about the dangers that result if all our meaning is fabricated in our own minds.
- [Extravagant gift of salvation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/31/extravagant-gift-of-salvation/) - In "Extravagant gift of salvation," Chip Ingram wonders why anyone would ever turn down such an extravagant gift as salvation.
- [Freedom and peace from guilt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/30/freedom-and-peace-from-guilt/) - In "Freedom and peace from guilt," Chip Ingram suggests it's rare for Christians to actually experience freedom and peace from guilt.
- [A formidable and complex foe](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/29/a-formidable-and-complex-foe/) - In "A formidable and complex foe," Chip Ingram describes guilt as a formidable and complex foe, consisting of true guilt and false guilt.
- [Pointing the finger outward](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/28/pointing-the-finger-outward/) - In "Pointing the finger outward," Chip Ingram notes that when pointing the finger outward, we justify our attitudes and actions to ourselves and others.
- [The root feeds the whole tree](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/27/the-root-feeds-the-whole-tree/) - In "The root feeds the whole tree," Chip Ingram says the root cause of guilt rarely surfaces, but the root feeds the whole tree
- [Shame disguises itself](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/19/shame-disguises-itself/) - In "Shame disguises itself," Chip Ingram asserts that shame disguises itself and rarely shows up on the surface. A hidden secret of the soul.
- [Biblical hope - certain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/21/biblical-hope-certain/) - In "Biblical hope - certain," Chip Ingram underscores that biblical hope is certain, not the product of wishful thinking.
- [The partners of destruction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/26/the-partners-of-destruction/) - In "The partners of destruction," Chip Ingram cautions that shame and guilt, the partners of destruction, erode our lives.
- [The currency of God's kingdom](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/25/the-currency-of-gods-kingdom/) - In "The currency of God's kingdom," Chip Ingram talks about faith as the currency of God's kingdom. Belief keys the activation of God's promises.
- [A horrible motivator - shame](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/24/a-horrible-motivator-shame/) - In "A horrible motivator - shame," Chip Ingram says shame is a horrible motivator in effecting behavioral change. And it often has the opposite effect.
- [True and false shame exist](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/23/true-and-false-shame-exist/) - In "True and false shame exist," Chip Ingram underscores that, biblically speaking, true and false shame exist. Our time sees shame as almost always false.
- [Transactional theology](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2023/11/24/transactional-theology/) - In "Transactional theology," Max Lucado defines transactional theology as hinging our belief on God's response to our prayers.
- [Only redeeming aspect of shame](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/20/only-redeeming-aspect-of-shame/) - In "Only redeeming aspect of shame," Chip Ingram suggests that the only redeeming aspect of shame involves leading us to God and His answers.
- [A joint venture - transformation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/18/a-joint-venture-transformation/) - In "A joint venture - transformation," Chip Ingram says we're being transformed via a joint venture between the Holy Spirit and our willingness to cooperate.
- [Security in all the wrong places](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/17/security-in-all-the-wrong-places/) - In "Security in all the wrong places," Chip Ingram notes that we begin to look for security in all the wrong places when we fail to understand who God is.
- [Anchor our hope in God alone](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/16/anchor-our-hope-in-god-alone/) - In "Anchor our hope in God alone," Chip Ingram underscores that God's ultimate purpose is to strengthen our faith and anchor our hope in Him alone
- [A disorienting journey](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/15/a-disorienting-journey/) - In "A disorienting journey," Chip Ingram notes that we experience a disorienting journey toward the fulfillment of God's purposes for our lives.
- [Accept your acceptance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2023/11/20/accept-your-acceptance/) - "Accept your acceptance" is the Thanksgiving Short Meditation from Crown of Compassion and includes the song "Goodness of God" by Jenn Johnson
- [Universal insecurity?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/14/universal-insecurity/) - In "Universal insecurity?" Chip Ingram sees deep-seated insecurity as a universal aspect of our fallen nature. We must find our security in God.
- [Radical transformations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/13/radical-transformations/) - In "Radical transformations," Chip Ingram underscores that radical transformations take time. In addition, it's an individual\, systematic process.
- [Worth the blood of Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/12/worth-the-blood-of-christ/) - In "Worth the blood of Christ," Chip Ingram stresses that no matter how you feel about yourself at the moment, you are worth the blood of Christ.
- [Authentic acceptance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/11/authentic-acceptance/) - In "Authentic acceptance," Chip Ingram underscores that every single person craves authentic acceptance. Someone who accepts the good, bad, and ugly in us.
- [Know the right answers?](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/09/know-the-right-answers/) - In "Know the right answers?" Chip Ingram notes that most people who know the right answers still have strong, unhealthy motives driving them.
- [A spiritual blessings journey](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/07/a-spiritual-blessings-journey/) - In "A spiritual blessings journey," Chip Ingram says that Ephesians takes us on a journey through spiritual blessings that God's given us.
- [Pain in the community of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2023/11/11/pain-in-the-community-of-faith/) - In "Pain in the community of faith," Alicia Britt Chole stresses that pain in the community of faith results from how people are treated
- [The biblical concept of adoption](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/08/the-biblical-concept-of-adoption/) - in "Adoption - the biblical concept," Chip Ingram underscores the need for us to understand the biblical concept of adoption.
- [Wrestle with insecurity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/06/wrestle-with-insecurity/) - In "Wrestle with insecurity," Chip Ingram observes that we all wrestle with insecurity at some level. No one has a perfect self-image
- [Identify the lies we believe](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/05/identify-the-lies-we-believe/) - in "Identify the lies we believe," Chip Ingram stresses the need to identify the lies we believe and then renew our minds with God's truth.
- [The mirror that never lies](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/2024/01/04/the-mirror-that-never-lies/) - In "The mirror that never lies," Chip Ingram talks about an objective and accurate mirror that never lies. It tells you why you're here on earth

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## Thrive Apprentice Lesson

- [Introduction – From Internet Rubbish to Content Marketing Gold](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/introduction-from-internet-rubbish-to-content-marketing-gold-4/)
- [Introduction – From Internet Rubbish to Content Marketing Gold](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/introduction-from-internet-rubbish-to-content-marketing-gold-3/)
- [Mastering Your Technique and Presentation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/mastering-your-technique-and-presentation/)
- [Introduction – From Internet Rubbish to Content Marketing Gold](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/introduction-from-internet-rubbish-to-content-marketing-gold-2/)
- [Why Most Internet Content Never Sees The Light of Day](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/why-most-internet-content-never-sees-the-light-of-day/)
- [Introduction – From Internet Rubbish to Content Marketing Gold](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/introduction-from-internet-rubbish-to-content-marketing-gold/)
- [Two Scarcity Marketing Recipes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/two-scarcity-marketing-recipes/)
- [Behind the Scenes: Our Exact Scarcity Marketing Sequence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/behind-the-scenes-our-exact-scarcity-marketing-sequence/)
- [How to Build a Digital Product Empire](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/how-to-build-a-digital-product-empire/)
- [How to Build Courses With Thrive Apprentice](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/how-to-build-courses-with-thrive-apprentice/)
- [Scarcity Marketing – Good & Bad Examples](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/scarcity-marketing-good-bad-examples/)
- [Intro & Proof](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/course/intro-proof/)

## Thrive Apprentice Chapter

- [Scarcity Marketing Secrets](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/chapter/scarcity-marketing-secrets/)

## Categories

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- [worry](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/worry/)
- [healing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/healing/)
- [discipline](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/discipline/)
- [meditation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/meditation/)
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- [baptized](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/baptized/)
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- [engaged heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/engaged-heart/)
- [joy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/joy/)
- [blessing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/blessing/)
- [spiritual self-sufficiency](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-self-sufficiency/)
- [praise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/praise/)
- [supplication](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/supplication/)
- [contemplation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/contemplation/)
- [adoation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/adoation/)
- [confession](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/confession/)
- [soul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/soul/)
- [stewardship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/stewardship/)
- [fragile](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fragile/)
- [growth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/growth/)
- [amaryllis](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/amaryllis/)
- [inner life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inner-life/)
- [salvation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/salvation/)
- [sacrifice](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sacrifice/)
- [patience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/patience/)
- [contentment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/contentment/)
- [future](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/future/)
- [rest](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rest/)
- [acceptance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/acceptance/)
- [fatigue](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fatigue/)
- [significance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/significance/)
- [commandments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/commandments/)
- [freedom](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/freedom/)
- [satisfaction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/satisfaction/)
- [identity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/identity/)
- [gratitude](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gratitude/)
- [suffering](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/suffering/)
- [conflict](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/conflict/)
- [doubt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/doubt/)
- [white noise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/white-noise/)
- [heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/heart/)
- [resentment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/resentment/)
- [grumbling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/grumbling/)
- [offended](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/offended/)
- [wholeness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wholeness/)
- [disappointment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/disappointment/)
- [intentional](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/intentional/)
- [heartbreaking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/heartbreaking/)
- [bitterness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/bitterness/)
- [anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anger/)
- [hearts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hearts/)
- [hurts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hurts/)
- [scars](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/scars/)
- [angels](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/angels/)
- [hospitality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hospitality/)
- [blame](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/blame/)
- [grudges](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/grudges/)
- [Ashburn](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ashburn/)
- [Timothy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/timothy/)
- [wisdom](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wisdom/)
- [compassion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/compassion/)
- [mercy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mercy/)
- [peace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/peace/)
- [reconciliation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reconciliation/)
- [purify](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/purify/)
- [encouragement](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/encouragement/)
- [conviction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/conviction/)
- [faithfulness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/faithfulness/)
- [restoration](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/restoration/)
- [God's story](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-story/)
- [Electroliner](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/electroliner/)
- [Electroburger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/electroburger/)
- [anticipation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anticipation/)
- [wait](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wait/)
- [fellowship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fellowship/)
- [waiting](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/waiting/)
- [guidance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/guidance/)
- [endurance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/endurance/)
- [delay](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/delay/)
- [obstacles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/obstacles/)
- [Holy Spirit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holy-spirit/)
- [omnipotence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/omnipotence/)
- [omnipresence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/omnipresence/)
- [promises](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/promises/)
- [despair](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/despair/)
- [human logic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/human-logic/)
- [temptation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/temptation/)
- [idolatry](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/idolatry/)
- [strongholds](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/strongholds/)
- [security](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/security/)
- [goals](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/goals/)
- [dreams](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/dreams/)
- [relationships](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/relationships/)
- [spiritual growth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-growth/)
- [unforgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unforgiveness/)
- [God's workmanship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-workmanship/)
- [shepherd](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/shepherd/)
- [godly counsel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/godly-counsel/)
- [aspirations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/aspirations/)
- [Timothy Keller](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/timothy-keller/)
- [fulfilled](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fulfilled/)
- [discernmnent](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/discernmnent/)
- [assurances](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/assurances/)
- [Scripture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/scripture/)
- [lifesong](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lifesong/)
- [Timothy Lutheran](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/timothy-lutheran/)
- [God's promises](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-promises/)
- [obedience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/obedience/)
- [courage](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/courage/)
- [detemination](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/detemination/)
- [darkness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/darkness/)
- [brokehhearted](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/brokehhearted/)
- [disheartenment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/disheartenment/)
- [courageously](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/courageously/)
- [victoriously](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/victoriously/)
- [eagles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/eagles/)
- [wings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wings/)
- [soar](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/soar/)
- [miracles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/miracles/)
- [Jesus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/jesus/)
- [impossible](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/impossible/)
- [inattentional blindness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inattentional-blindness/)
- [miraculous](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/miraculous/)
- [spiritual maturity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-maturity/)
- [supernatural](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/supernatural/)
- [catalyst](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/catalyst/)
- [miracle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/miracle/)
- [skepticism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/skepticism/)
- [crucifixion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/crucifixion/)
- [resurrection](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/resurrection/)
- [restraint](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/restraint/)
- [home](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/home/)
- [promptings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/promptings/)
- [thank](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/thank/)
- [Last Supper](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/last-supper/)
- [anointing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anointing/)
- [supernatural synchronicities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/supernatural-synchronicities/)
- [Sovereign](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sovereign/)
- [God's presence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-presence/)
- [nudge](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/nudge/)
- [divine appointments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-appointments/)
- [providence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/providence/)
- [purpose](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/purpose/)
- [children of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/children-of-god/)
- [holy confidence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holy-confidence/)
- [fully present](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fully-present/)
- [God Speed](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-speed/)
- [sweat equity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sweat-equity/)
- [assumptions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/assumptions/)
- [health](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/health/)
- [security blanket](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/security-blanket/)
- [routine](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/routine/)
- [revitalization](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/revitalization/)
- [self-fulfilling prophecies](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/self-fulfilling-prophecies/)
- [visualization](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/visualization/)
- [second-order change](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/second-order-change/)
- [critical realism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/critical-realism/)
- [drop in the bucket effect](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/drop-in-the-bucket-effect/)
- [God-ordained dream](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-ordained-dream/)
- [provision](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/provision/)
- [tithe](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tithe/)
- [miraculous. contentment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/miraculous-contentment/)
- [revisioning](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/revisioning/)
- [revitalizing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/revitalizing/)
- [unprecedented](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unprecedented/)
- [mystery](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mystery/)
- [complete heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/complete-heart/)
- [sustaining grace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sustaining-grace/)
- [daredevil](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/daredevil/)
- [safety nets](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/safety-nets/)
- [fearlessness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fearlessness/)
- [providential care](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/providential-care/)
- [good eye](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/good-eye/)
- [window of opportunity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/window-of-opportunity/)
- [blind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/blind/)
- [anti-miracles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anti-miracles/)
- [new normal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/new-normal/)
- [Lazarus](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lazarus/)
- [tomb](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tomb/)
- [passive-aggressive behavior](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/passive-aggressive-behavior/)
- [reality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reality/)
- [sixth sense](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sixth-sense/)
- [land between](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/land-between/)
- [open door](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/open-door/)
- [six words](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/six-words/)
- [opportunity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/opportunity/)
- [divine opportunity alertness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-opportunity-alertness/)
- [opened doors](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/opened-doors/)
- [divine opportunity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-opportunity/)
- [transitional](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/transitional/)
- [short-eared owl](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/short-eared-owl/)
- [turn around](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/turn-around/)
- [righteousness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/righteousness/)
- [God's will](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-will/)
- [Staytheists](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/staytheists/)
- [open-door thinking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/open-door-thinking/)
- [closed-door thinking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/closed-door-thinking/)
- [failure to launch](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/failure-to-launch/)
- [ready](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ready/)
- [opportunites](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/opportunites/)
- [challenges](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/challenges/)
- [God's calling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-calling/)
- [abundance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/abundance/)
- [open doors](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/open-doors/)
- [promised land](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/promised-land/)
- [divine 'go'](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-go/)
- [redemption](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/redemption/)
- [insatiable hunger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/insatiable-hunger/)
- [FOMO](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fomo/)
- [opportunities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/opportunities/)
- [Naomi](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/naomi/)
- [Ruth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ruth/)
- [one foot raised](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/one-foot-raised/)
- [God's leading](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-leading/)
- [broken story](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/broken-story/)
- [Jesus' story](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/jesus-story/)
- [significant living](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/significant-living/)
- [day of small things](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/day-of-small-things/)
- [common myths](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/common-myths/)
- [big door decisions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/big-door-decisions/)
- [Christian walk](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/christian-walk/)
- [easy on the inside](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/easy-on-the-inside/)
- [obedient](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/obedient/)
- [spiritual blinders](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-blinders/)
- [perfectionism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/perfectionism/)
- [constraints](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/constraints/)
- [incremental growth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/incremental-growth/)
- [counter- factual thinking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/counter-factual-thinking/)
- [godly sorrow](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/godly-sorrow/)
- [closed doors](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/closed-doors/)
- [knocking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/knocking/)
- [decidophobia](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/decidophobia/)
- [Lady Wisdom](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lady-wisdom/)
- [great decisions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/great-decisions/)
- [passion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/passion/)
- [burning bush](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/burning-bush/)
- [Moses](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/moses/)
- [small doors](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/small-doors/)
- [problems](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/problems/)
- [calling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/calling/)
- [broken walls](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/broken-walls/)
- [confirmation bias](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/confirmation-bias/)
- [wise counsel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wise-counsel/)
- [failure tolerance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/failure-tolerance/)
- [ultimate door](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ultimate-door/)
- [knowledge](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/knowledge/)
- [worst case scenario](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/worst-case-scenario/)
- [threshold](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/threshold/)
- [buyer's remorse](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/buyers-remorse/)
- [thanksgiving](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [Luther South](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/luther-south/)
- [wholeheartedness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wholeheartedness/)
- [responsibility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/responsibility/)
- [Annotated Bibliography](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/annotated-bibliography/)
- [commitments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/commitments/)
- [disciples](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/disciples/)
- [sheep](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sheep/)
- [wolves](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wolves/)
- [wise as serpents](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wise-as-serpents/)
- [discern](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/discern/)
- [innocent](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/innocent/)
- [blind spot](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/blind-spot/)
- [self-awareness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/self-awareness/)
- [come to the well](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/come-to-the-well/)
- [living water](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/living-water/)
- [spiritual life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-life/)
- [strengths](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/strengths/)
- [weaknesses](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/weaknesses/)
- [door response style](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/door-response-style/)
- [impulsives](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/impulsives/)
- [resisters](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/resisters/)
- [Gideon](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gideon/)
- [Jonah complex](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/jonah-complex/)
- [Nineveh](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/nineveh/)
- [Tarshish](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tarshish/)
- [will of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/will-of-god/)
- [Jonah](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/jonah/)
- [pay attention](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pay-attention/)
- [Yahweh](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/yahweh/)
- [guilt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/guilt/)
- [rock bottom](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rock-bottom/)
- [rebellion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rebellion/)
- [God's open door](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-open-door/)
- [unanswered prayers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unanswered-prayers/)
- [grow](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/grow/)
- [leadership](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/leadership/)
- [sovereignty](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sovereignty/)
- [small](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/small/)
- [burrowing owls](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/burrowing-owls/)
- [C. S. Lewis](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/c-s-lewis/)
- [discovery](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/discovery/)
- [surrender](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/surrender/)
- [Garden of Eden](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/garden-of-eden/)
- [first door](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/first-door/)
- [fear](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fear/)
- [clarity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/clarity/)
- [Simplify](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/simplify/)
- [simple living](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/simple-living/)
- [healthy inner world](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/healthy-inner-world/)
- [simplified living](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/simplified-living/)
- [whisper](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/whisper/)
- [needless clutter](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/needless-clutter/)
- [divine opportunity awareness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-opportunity-awareness/)
- [monotony](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/monotony/)
- [depletion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/depletion/)
- [irritation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/irritation/)
- [replenishment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/replenishment/)
- [running on empty](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/running-on-empty/)
- [replenishing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/replenishing/)
- [intentional. children of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/intentional-children-of-god/)
- [recreation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/recreation/)
- [work](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/work/)
- [exercise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/exercise/)
- [depleted](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/depleted/)
- [prioritizing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prioritizing/)
- [schedule](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/schedule/)
- [inner priorities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inner-priorities/)
- [undisputed boss](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/undisputed-boss/)
- [life goals](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/life-goals/)
- [holistic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holistic/)
- [chair time](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/chair-time/)
- [direction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/direction/)
- [finances](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/finances/)
- [money](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/money/)
- [financial reconciliation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/financial-reconciliation/)
- [steward](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/steward/)
- [economic indicators](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/economic-indicators/)
- [energy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/energy/)
- [self-confidence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/self-confidence/)
- [culture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/culture/)
- [appropriately challenged](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/appropriately-challenged/)
- [simplifying](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/simplifying/)
- [atrophy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/atrophy/)
- [compensation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/compensation/)
- [income](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/income/)
- [relational breakdowns](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/relational-breakdowns/)
- [minor offenses](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/minor-offenses/)
- [relationship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/relationship/)
- [justice](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/justice/)
- [revenge](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/revenge/)
- [peace busters simplfied life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/peace-busters-simplfied-life/)
- [constructive fear](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/constructive-fear/)
- [catastrophizing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/catastrophizing/)
- [joint venture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/joint-venture/)
- [worst-case scenarios](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/worst-case-scenarios/)
- [danger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/danger/)
- [escalate](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/escalate/)
- [Northeast School](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/northeast-school/)
- [friendship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/friendship/)
- [wise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wise/)
- [foolish](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/foolish/)
- [bridge builder](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/bridge-builder/)
- [lifelong](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lifelong/)
- [friendships](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/friendships/)
- [inner circle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inner-circle/)
- [shared experiences](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/shared-experiences/)
- [life verse](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/life-verse/)
- [vivid point of light](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/vivid-point-of-light/)
- [core Christian beliefs](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/core-christian-beliefs/)
- [navigate](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/navigate/)
- [crown](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/crown/)
- [God's kingdom](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-kingdom/)
- [race](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/race/)
- [hats](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hats/)
- [hardware](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hardware/)
- [seasons](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/seasons/)
- [The Byrds](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/the-byrds/)
- [mourning](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mourning/)
- [dancing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/dancing/)
- [grieving](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/grieving/)
- [thanksliving](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/thanksliving/)
- [God's quiet whispers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-quiet-whispers/)
- [challenging seasons](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/challenging-seasons/)
- [loneliness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/loneliness/)
- [staying on course](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/staying-on-course/)
- [end of life conversations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/end-of-life-conversations/)
- [sacred space](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sacred-space/)
- [the end of me](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/the-end-of-me/)
- [counter-cultural](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/counter-cultural/)
- [counter-intuitive](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/counter-intuitive/)
- [Landfill Harmonic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/landfill-harmonic/)
- [music of hope](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/music-of-hope/)
- [laughter](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/laughter/)
- [Sermon on the Mount](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sermon-on-the-mount/)
- [poor in spirit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/poor-in-spirit/)
- [beautifully broken](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/beautifully-broken/)
- [beatitude](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/beatitude/)
- [brokenness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/brokenness/)
- [paradox](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/paradox/)
- [Kintsugi](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/kintsugi/)
- [flaws](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/flaws/)
- [nightmare](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/nightmare/)
- [dream](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/dream/)
- [mourn](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mourn/)
- [heartache](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/heartache/)
- [shattered dreams](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/shattered-dreams/)
- [dream busters](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/dream-busters/)
- [humble](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/humble/)
- [Pharisee](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pharisee/)
- [inherit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inherit/)
- [pride](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pride/)
- [apology](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/apology/)
- [parable](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/parable/)
- [fair](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fair/)
- [sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sin/)
- [inner Pharisee](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inner-pharisee/)
- [humblebrag](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/humblebrag/)
- [humbled](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/humbled/)
- [taking ownership](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/taking-ownership/)
- [active](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/active/)
- [passive](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/passive/)
- [confess](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/confess/)
- [self-humbling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/self-humbling/)
- [blessed](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/blessed/)
- [pure in heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pure-in-heart/)
- [false advertising](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/false-advertising/)
- [purity of heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/purity-of-heart/)
- [emptiness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/emptiness/)
- [preconceptions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/preconceptions/)
- [Pharisees](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pharisees/)
- [presumption of emptiness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/presumption-of-emptiness/)
- [reflection](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reflection/)
- [busyness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/busyness/)
- [pseudo-complaint](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pseudo-complaint/)
- [the filled life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/the-filled-life/)
- [quiet desperation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/quiet-desperation/)
- [low expectations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/low-expectations/)
- [stuck in neutral](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/stuck-in-neutral/)
- [Bethesda](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/bethesda/)
- [Lionel standard gauge](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lionel-standard-gauge/)
- [disqualified](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/disqualified/)
- [Paul](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/paul/)
- [shame](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/shame/)
- [past](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/past/)
- [weakness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/weakness/)
- [challenge](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/challenge/)
- [persecuted](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/persecuted/)
- [Kyle Idleman](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/kyle-idleman/)
- [end of me](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/end-of-me/)
- [Glory Days](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/glory-days/)
- [Joshua](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/joshua/)
- [inheritance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inheritance/)
- [strong](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/strong/)
- [courageous](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/courageous/)
- [God's Word](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-word/)
- [Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/christ/)
- [Rahab](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rahab/)
- [chorus of grace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/chorus-of-grace/)
- [Jordan River](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/jordan-river/)
- [step of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/step-of-faith/)
- [remember](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/remember/)
- [Columbian Exposition](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/columbian-exposition/)
- [ferris wheel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ferris-wheel/)
- [circumcision](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/circumcision/)
- [birthright](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/birthright/)
- [baptism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/baptism/)
- [Jericho](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/jericho/)
- [stronghold](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/stronghold/)
- [spiritual battle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-battle/)
- [steadfast](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/steadfast/)
- [assurance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/assurance/)
- [praising](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/praising/)
- [walking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/walking/)
- [King More](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/king-more/)
- [failure](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/failure/)
- [voices](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/voices/)
- [choices](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/choices/)
- [consequences](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/consequences/)
- [Martin Luther](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/martin-luther/)
- [God's provision](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-provision/)
- [anxious](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anxious/)
- [God-given abilities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-given-abilities/)
- [uniqueness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/uniqueness/)
- [promotion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/promotion/)
- [skill set](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/skill-set/)
- [thoughts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/thoughts/)
- [God- drenched mind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-drenched-mind/)
- [problem-free life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/problem-free-life/)
- [Caleb](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/caleb/)
- [God-thoughts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-thoughts/)
- [falling words](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/falling-words/)
- [victory](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/victory/)
- [Circle Maker](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/circle-maker/)
- [prayer circles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prayer-circles/)
- [success](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/success/)
- [praying through](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/praying-through/)
- [risk](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/risk/)
- [imagination](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/imagination/)
- [logic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/logic/)
- [defining decision](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/defining-decision/)
- [prayers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prayers/)
- [prayed through](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prayed-through/)
- [unpredictable](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unpredictable/)
- [providences](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/providences/)
- [praystorm](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/praystorm/)
- [holy moment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holy-moment/)
- [degrees of difficulty](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/degrees-of-difficulty/)
- [omnipotent](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/omnipotent/)
- [God-sized dream](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-sized-dream/)
- [called](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/called/)
- [praying hard](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/praying-hard/)
- [holy desperation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holy-desperation/)
- [persistence quotient](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/persistence-quotient/)
- [resurrection faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/resurrection-faith/)
- [preventative faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/preventative-faith/)
- [Havoline Thermometer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/havoline-thermometer/)
- [A Century of Progress](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/a-century-of-progress/)
- [answered prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/answered-prayer/)
- [favor of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/favor-of-god/)
- [self-sufficiency](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/self-sufficiency/)
- [holy complications](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holy-complications/)
- [litmus test](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/litmus-test/)
- [divine detours](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-detours/)
- [Balaam](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/balaam/)
- [dreaming big](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/dreaming-big/)
- [thinking long](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/thinking-long/)
- [prayer postures](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prayer-postures/)
- [dream big](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/dream-big/)
- [pray hard](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pray-hard/)
- [think long](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/think-long/)
- [priming](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/priming/)
- [God-ordained opportunities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-ordained-opportunities/)
- [waiting expectantly](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/waiting-expectantly/)
- [daily rhythm](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/daily-rhythm/)
- [pray through](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pray-through/)
- [supernatural breakthrough](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/supernatural-breakthrough/)
- [faith barrier](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/faith-barrier/)
- [goal-setting](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/goal-setting/)
- [mental image](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mental-image/)
- [God-glorifying](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-glorifying/)
- [measurable goal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/measurable-goal/)
- [God-idea](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-idea/)
- [ebenezer moment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ebenezer-moment/)
- [God-ordained goals](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-ordained-goals/)
- [keep circling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/keep-circling/)
- [Half Dome](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/half-dome/)
- [The Circle Maker](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/the-circle-maker/)
- [embedded bitterness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/embedded-bitterness/)
- [boulders](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/boulders/)
- [hardened heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hardened-heart/)
- [flint](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/flint/)
- [God's hook](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-hook/)
- [Christlike](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/christlike/)
- [release](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/release/)
- [offense](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/offense/)
- [Hib Wiedenkeller](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hib-wiedenkeller/)
- [Hales Corners Lutheran Church](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hales-corners-lutheran-church/)
- [little children](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/little-children/)
- [God's nature](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-nature/)
- [heavenly Father](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/heavenly-father/)
- [extraordinary forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/extraordinary-forgiveness/)
- [aggregates](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/aggregates/)
- [unconditional forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unconditional-forgiveness/)
- [law](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/law/)
- [fruit of forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fruit-of-forgiveness/)
- [crucible](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/crucible/)
- [masterpiece](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/masterpiece/)
- [Daniel Burnham](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/daniel-burnham/)
- [holy surprise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holy-surprise/)
- [holy anticipation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holy-anticipation/)
- [Glorious Ruin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/glorious-ruin/)
- [pain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pain/)
- [circle makers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/circle-makers/)
- [tears](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tears/)
- [malachite](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/malachite/)
- [resentful rocks](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/resentful-rocks/)
- [Joseph](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/joseph/)
- [chemistry](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/chemistry/)
- [falling tear](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/falling-tear/)
- [master of your mind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/master-of-your-mind/)
- [megapain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/megapain/)
- [megapeace](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/megapeace/)
- [megacomfort](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/megacomfort/)
- [complete forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/complete-forgiveness/)
- [eye for an eye](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/eye-for-an-eye/)
- [real forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/real-forgiveness/)
- [hostility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hostility/)
- [wounds](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wounds/)
- [salve of sympathy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/salve-of-sympathy/)
- [venom of vindictiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/venom-of-vindictiveness/)
- [four stages of forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/four-stages-of-forgiveness/)
- [Original Rainbow Cone](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/original-rainbow-cone/)
- [rainbow days](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rainbow-days/)
- [accountable](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/accountable/)
- [boundaries](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/boundaries/)
- [star sapphire](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/star-sapphire/)
- [asterism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/asterism/)
- [reconciliation roadmap](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reconciliation-roadmap/)
- [setting boundaries](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/setting-boundaries/)
- [enablement](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/enablement/)
- [amethyst geode](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/amethyst-geode/)
- [comfort](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/comfort/)
- [faith factor](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/faith-factor/)
- [diamonds in the rough](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/diamonds-in-the-rough/)
- [true guilt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/true-guilt/)
- [false guilt](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/false-guilt/)
- [repent](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/repent/)
- [forgiven](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/forgiven/)
- [three inner needs](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/three-inner-needs/)
- [geodes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/geodes/)
- [change of heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/change-of-heart/)
- [being present](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/being-present/)
- [God's hands](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-hands/)
- [hurting people](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hurting-people/)
- [unredeemed](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unredeemed/)
- [redeemed](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/redeemed/)
- [tiny dirt road](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tiny-dirt-road/)
- [worthless idols](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/worthless-idols/)
- [theology of no more pain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/theology-of-no-more-pain/)
- [incarnation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/incarnation/)
- [carnelian](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/carnelian/)
- [subtraction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/subtraction/)
- [glory](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/glory/)
- [untold story](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/untold-story/)
- [hiding places](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hiding-places/)
- [hardwiring](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hardwiring/)
- [alternate settings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/alternate-settings/)
- [ordinary](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ordinary/)
- [painful memories](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/painful-memories/)
- [healing gift](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/healing-gift/)
- [whole truth](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/whole-truth/)
- [shadows](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/shadows/)
- [bystander effect](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/bystander-effect/)
- [burden of responsibility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/burden-of-responsibility/)
- [mountains](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mountains/)
- [Elijah](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/elijah/)
- [maturing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/maturing/)
- [growing up](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/growing-up/)
- [angel](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/angel/)
- [Scriptures](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/scriptures/)
- [Cry of the Heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/cry-of-the-heart/)
- [heart-cries](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/heart-cries/)
- [effective prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/effective-prayer/)
- [debris](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/debris/)
- [pray](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pray/)
- [Sp[irit of sonship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spirit-of-sonship/)
- [God's children](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-children/)
- [friends](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/friends/)
- [shared mission](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/shared-mission/)
- [partnership](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/partnership/)
- [present life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/present-life/)
- [redeem](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/redeem/)
- [authority](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/authority/)
- [rule and reign](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rule-and-reign/)
- [Prayer of Intervention](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prayer-of-intervention/)
- [strenuous prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/strenuous-prayer/)
- [proclaiming](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/proclaiming/)
- [invoking](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/invoking/)
- [enforcing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/enforcing/)
- [consecration](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/consecration/)
- [Daily Prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/daily-prayer/)
- [aligning](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/aligning/)
- [revelation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/revelation/)
- [surrendered](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/surrendered/)
- [voice of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/voice-of-god/)
- [open heart](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/open-heart/)
- [open-handedness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/open-handedness/)
- [Siberian crane](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/siberian-crane/)
- [International Crane Foundation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/international-crane-foundation/)
- [interceding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/interceding/)
- [principle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/principle/)
- [promise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/promise/)
- [rules of engagement](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rules-of-engagement/)
- [cursing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/cursing/)
- [Warfare Prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/warfare-prayer/)
- [judgment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/judgment/)
- [healing prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/healing-prayer/)
- [wounding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wounding/)
- [unanswered prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unanswered-prayer/)
- [disappointments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/disappointments/)
- [Eden](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/eden/)
- [paradise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/paradise/)
- [victorious](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/victorious/)
- [affliction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/affliction/)
- [discouragement](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/discouragement/)
- [Moving Mountains](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/moving-mountains/)
- [holiness by subtraction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/holiness-by-subtraction/)
- [counterfactual theory](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/counterfactual-theory/)
- [reimagine](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reimagine/)
- [religiosity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/religiosity/)
- [unconquerableness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unconquerableness/)
- [leverage point](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/leverage-point/)
- [tipping point](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tipping-point/)
- [condemnation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/condemnation/)
- [mezuzah](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mezuzah/)
- [God-sized dreams](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-sized-dreams/)
- [God-ordained passions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-ordained-passions/)
- [confessed sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/confessed-sin/)
- [unconfessed sin](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unconfessed-sin/)
- [fasting](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fasting/)
- [conjugate praise](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/conjugate-praise/)
- [fruits of the Spirit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fruits-of-the-spirit/)
- [sancitification](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sancitification/)
- [beneficial](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/beneficial/)
- [spiritual disciplines](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-disciplines/)
- [beeline](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/beeline/)
- [nuanced confession](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/nuanced-confession/)
- [as if](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/as-if/)
- [intentionality](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/intentionality/)
- [due diligence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/due-diligence/)
- [quickening](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/quickening/)
- [Word of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/word-of-god/)
- [quick-twitch reactions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/quick-twitch-reactions/)
- [catalyze](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/catalyze/)
- [quicken](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/quicken/)
- [reaction time](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reaction-time/)
- [steadfast anchor](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/steadfast-anchor/)
- [response-ability](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/response-ability/)
- [anchoring](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anchoring/)
- [positive mindset](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/positive-mindset/)
- ["Say Not" List](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/say-not-list/)
- [mind of Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mind-of-christ/)
- [Thompson Chain-Reference Bible](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/thompson-chain-reference-bible/)
- [conqueror](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/conqueror/)
- [crucified](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/crucified/)
- [new creation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/new-creation/)
- [therefore](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/therefore/)
- [obligation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/obligation/)
- [God-sized goals](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-sized-goals/)
- [scenic route](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/scenic-route/)
- [reckon](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reckon/)
- [simplified](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/simplified/)
- [Helen Keller](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/helen-keller/)
- [optimism](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/optimism/)
- [what if](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/what-if/)
- [divine what if](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-what-if/)
- [worship](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/worship/)
- [Trinity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/trinity/)
- [anointings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anointings/)
- [giftings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/giftings/)
- [patiently](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/patiently/)
- [compound interest](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/compound-interest/)
- [faith muscle](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/faith-muscle/)
- [day-tight compartments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/day-tight-compartments/)
- ["wait for it"](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wait-for-it/)
- [narrow framing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/narrow-framing/)
- [two-dimensional understanding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/two-dimensional-understanding/)
- [small beginnings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/small-beginnings/)
- [Yellowstone](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/yellowstone/)
- [bear witness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/bear-witness/)
- [Yellowstone National Park](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/yellowstone-national-park/)
- [Romans 8:28](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/romans-828/)
- [Lombard Street](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lombard-street/)
- [unintended consequences](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unintended-consequences/)
- [Rosetta Stone](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rosetta-stone/)
- [8:28 guarantee](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/828-guarantee/)
- [the contrast effect](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/the-contrast-effect/)
- [if only](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/if-only/)
- [God's recreation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-recreation/)
- [re-creation](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/re-creation/)
- [replenisher](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/replenisher/)
- [bold predictions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/bold-predictions/)
- [possibilities](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/possibilities/)
- [reconditioned](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/reconditioned/)
- [destiny](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/destiny/)
- [conditioned reflexes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/conditioned-reflexes/)
- [three pennies](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/three-pennies/)
- [Mother Teresa](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mother-teresa/)
- [chain reaction of faith](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/chain-reaction-of-faith/)
- [infinite God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/infinite-god/)
- [Event horizon](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/event-horizon/)
- [Paraclete](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/paraclete/)
- [more than conquerors](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/more-than-conquerors/)
- [guttermost](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/guttermost/)
- [false humility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/false-humility/)
- [deep convictions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/deep-convictions/)
- [core convictions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/core-convictions/)
- [If-Mark Batterson](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/if-mark-batterson/)
- [processing anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/processing-anger/)
- [lordship of Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lordship-of-christ/)
- [cluster of emotions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/cluster-of-emotions/)
- [adrenaline](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/adrenaline/)
- [physiological changes](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/physiological-changes/)
- [made in God's image](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/made-in-gods-image/)
- [essential nature of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/essential-nature-of-god/)
- [God's anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-anger/)
- [God's design for anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-design-for-anger/)
- [repentance](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/repentance/)
- [rage](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rage/)
- [angry](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/angry/)
- [valid anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/valid-anger/)
- [anger control](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/anger-control/)
- [short-tempered people](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/short-tempered-people/)
- [Copper Falls State Park](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/copper-falls-state-park/)
- [Tyler Forks Cascades](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tyler-forks-cascades/)
- [step by step](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/step-by-step/)
- [definitive anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/definitive-anger/)
- [distorted anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/distorted-anger/)
- [provoking event](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/provoking-event/)
- [sharing information](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sharing-information/)
- [negotiate understanding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/negotiate-understanding/)
- [sharing verdict](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sharing-verdict/)
- [denial](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/denial/)
- [withdrawal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/withdrawal/)
- [brooding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/brooding/)
- [implosion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/implosion/)
- [explosion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/explosion/)
- [call of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/call-of-god/)
- [wrongdoing](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wrongdoing/)
- [Cain](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/cain/)
- [Eljah](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/eljah/)
- [Northwest Lutheran School](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/northwest-lutheran-school/)
- [self-forgiveness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/self-forgiveness/)
- [unconditional love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/unconditional-love/)
- [failures](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/failures/)
- [angry people](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/angry-people/)
- [understanding](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/understanding/)
- [listening](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/listening/)
- [quick to listen](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/quick-to-listen/)
- [human anger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/human-anger/)
- [wait well](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wait-well/)
- [the big picture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/the-big-picture/)
- [fruit of the Spirit](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/fruit-of-the-spirit/)
- [living in the gaps](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/living-in-the-gaps/)
- [Bible](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/bible/)
- [Spirit of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spirit-of-god/)
- [lost in the weeds](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lost-in-the-weeds/)
- [godly character](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/godly-character/)
- [beast mode](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/beast-mode/)
- [circumstantial evidence](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/circumstantial-evidence/)
- [stabbing disappointment](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/stabbing-disappointment/)
- [spiritual confusion](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-confusion/)
- [spiritually dysfunctional](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritually-dysfunctional/)
- [personal cross](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/personal-cross/)
- [compulsory journeys](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/compulsory-journeys/)
- [sovereign God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sovereign-god/)
- [godly solutions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/godly-solutions/)
- [blessings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/blessings/)
- [delayed gratification](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/delayed-gratification/)
- [addicted](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/addicted/)
- [tough circumstances](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tough-circumstances/)
- [failure to wait](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/failure-to-wait/)
- [emotional triggers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/emotional-triggers/)
- [spiritual benefits](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-benefits/)
- [sinkhole syndrome](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sinkhole-syndrome/)
- [waiting on God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/waiting-on-god/)
- [God's goal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-goal/)
- [taproot](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/taproot/)
- [talents](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/talents/)
- [gifts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gifts/)
- [God's ultimate plans](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-ultimate-plans/)
- [obscurity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/obscurity/)
- [Build-A-Bear](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/build-a-bear/)
- [buffet lunch](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/buffet-lunch/)
- [God's hand](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-hand/)
- [trials](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/trials/)
- [Gary Chapman](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gary-chapman/)
- [deaf ear](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/deaf-ear/)
- [Pharaoh](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pharaoh/)
- [cupbearer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/cupbearer/)
- [sucker punches](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sucker-punches/)
- [pop quiz](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pop-quiz/)
- [divine exchange](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/divine-exchange/)
- [hard facts of life](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hard-facts-of-life/)
- [warning lights](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/warning-lights/)
- ["what-if's" room](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/what-ifs-room/)
- [knee-jerk reaction](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/knee-jerk-reaction/)
- [glacier calving](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/glacier-calving/)
- [clutchers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/clutchers/)
- [relinquishers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/relinquishers/)
- [spiritual vacuum](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/spiritual-vacuum/)
- [God-ordained events](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/god-ordained-events/)
- [impossible situations](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/impossible-situations/)
- [omniscience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/omniscience/)
- [glory of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/glory-of-god/)
- [black hole](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/black-hole/)
- [hopelessness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/hopelessness/)
- [path of obedience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/path-of-obedience/)
- [utopia](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/utopia/)
- [challange](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/challange/)
- [balanced perspective](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/balanced-perspective/)
- [eternal](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/eternal/)
- [eternity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/eternity/)
- [Wayne Stiles](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wayne-stiles/)
- [His story](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/his-story/)
- [Gospel in a Nutshell](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gospel-in-a-nutshell/)
- [Wizard of Oz](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/wizard-of-oz/)
- [God's quest](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-quest/)
- [splendor](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/splendor/)
- [Christmas](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/christmas/)
- [indwell](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/indwell/)
- [White House](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/white-house/)
- [manger](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/manger/)
- [God's narrative](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-narrative/)
- [Satan](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/satan/)
- [heaven](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/heaven/)
- [Pack 3644](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pack-3644/)
- [Den 6](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/den-6/)
- [Northeast Elementary School](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/northeast-elementary-school/)
- [control](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/control/)
- [doodlebugs](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/doodlebugs/)
- [prodigal son](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prodigal-son/)
- [flying blind](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/flying-blind/)
- [Son of God](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/son-of-god/)
- [Mayday](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/mayday/)
- [vest system](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/vest-system/)
- [transgressions](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/transgressions/)
- [year-round resident](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/year-round-resident/)
- [blocked doors](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/blocked-doors/)
- [work together for good](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/work-together-for-good/)
- [More to Your Story](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/more-to-your-story/)
- [Max Lucado](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/max-lucado/)
- [Pocket Prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pocket-prayer/)
- [seek littleness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/seek-littleness/)
- [God's unrivaled goodness](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-unrivaled-goodness/)
- [Rambler](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/rambler/)
- [some assembly required](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/some-assembly-required/)
- [tattoos](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/tattoos/)
- [intercessory prayer](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/intercessory-prayer/)
- [Thanksfeeling](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/thanksfeeling/)
- [honey bees](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/honey-bees/)
- [sting](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sting/)
- [feel- good Christianity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/feel-good-christianity/)
- [resilience](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/resilience/)
- [feelings](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/feelings/)
- [Theology of Complacency](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/theology-of-complacency/)
- [resilient](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/resilient/)
- [infomercial](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/infomercial/)
- [God's love](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-love/)
- [failure to thrive syndrome](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/failure-to-thrive-syndrome/)
- [run to the roar](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/run-to-the-roar/)
- [Benaiah](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/benaiah/)
- [lion chasers](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/lion-chasers/)
- [impossibility](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/impossibility/)
- [creativity](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/creativity/)
- [legacy](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/legacy/)
- [inciting incident](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inciting-incident/)
- [ripple effect](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/ripple-effect/)
- [sowing and reaping](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/sowing-and-reaping/)
- [inciting incidents](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inciting-incidents/)
- [epic conflict](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/epic-conflict/)
- [genesis moments](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/genesis-moments/)
- [favorite scripture](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/favorite-scripture/)
- [character of Christ](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/character-of-christ/)
- [plot line](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/plot-line/)
- [Pixar](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/pixar/)
- [Finding Nemo](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/finding-nemo/)
- [two- inch events](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/two-inch-events/)
- [equilibrium](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/equilibrium/)
- [God's sovereignty](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gods-sovereignty/)
- [inertia](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/inertia/)
- [enemy number one](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/enemy-number-one/)
- [gut instincts](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/gut-instincts/)
- [daily disciplines](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/daily-disciplines/)
- [work ethic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/work-ethic/)
- [prayer ethic](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/prayer-ethic/)
- [Golgotha Evangelical Lutheran Church](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/golgotha-evangelical-lutheran-church/)
- [Soul Keeping](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/soul-keeping/)
- [altar](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/altar/)
- [life symbols](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/life-symbols/)
- [grace period](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/grace-period/)
- [memory lane](https://www.crownofcompassion.org/tag/memory-lane/)

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