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What’s So Critical About the Stuff and Soul Connection?

By Dr. Scott Rodin | This week it is my privilege and joy to turn my blog over to my friend and colleague Dr. Wes Willmer. This is an exciting day as our publication arm, Kingdom Life Publishing, launches Wes’s new book, Stuff and Soul: Mastering the Critical Connection.

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Three Questions that will Shape the Way You Live in 2020

By Dr. Scott Rodin | The writer of Hebrews tells us that by seeing Jesus we believe a greater truth about the world than can be readily seen. How do we reconcile the view of the kingdom of God above with this reality of a rapidly deteriorating kingdom of man writ large across our news reels and computer screens?

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Stewarding Christmas: How to Avoid the Three Christmas Traps

By Dr. Scott Rodin | What would it look like for you to ‘steward Christmas’ this year? We pray this new look at Christmas will help you overcome the challenges and discover again the joy and power of this amazing season.As we seek to be stewards and not owners of Christmas.

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Stewarding Christmas

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Stewards will embrace Christmas by starting at the manger. They will surrender their time to God and seek His leading for how best to use it. They will define ‘Christmas success’ as a season of faithfulness. They will be driven by doing those things that glorify God even if it does not meet the expectations of others. They will value service over busyness and giving over buying. They will trust God to lead and provide at every level.

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It’s Time We Told the Truth About Christmas

By Dr. Scott Rodin | When God took on human form, when in the baby Jesus there dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 1:19) every human was changed forever.

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Going Nowhere…Successfully

By Dr. Scott Rodin | From time to time when approaching an airport, air traffic control would require you to enter into a holding pattern until the runway was clear for you to land.

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The Most Powerful Lesson I’ve Learned This Year (Maybe This Decade)

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Those of you who’ve been following this ministry know that The Steward’s Journey is all about freedom. For the last five years we have written, taught, preached and guided people through a process of being set free. We believe freedom is among the greatest gifts that flow from the life in Christ.

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My Three Favorite Scriptures that Aren’t in the Bible

By Dr. Scott Rodin | This is a confession. In my unspoken desire to live with one foot in God’s kingdom and one in my own, I can find clever ways to make scripture fit my own perspectives.

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How Generosity Can Rob Us of our Joy

By Dr. Scott Rodin | We are generous when and only when our giving is our way of emulating the giving of the Father.

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What You Don’t Know Will Steal Your Joy

By Dr. Scott Rodin | Only at the foot of the cross will we fully experience both our sin and our salvation in a way that produces the blessed assurance that God’s grace is enough.