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Lay it Down by Bill Tell

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Recent Posts:

  • Do Hearing the Lies of Shame mean I am not Mature?
  • 75 Statements about You That Are Lies!
  • The Most Dangerous Circumstance – Being Alone
  • “Laying it Down” – back for another year & a personal note
  • Why Independent People are Unhealthy People!
  • Why Fulfilling Conditions is not the Same as Earning God’s Merit.
  • Breeding Grounds of Stress: Oughts, Expectations and Abandonment
  • An Inner Breeding Ground of Stress: The continual back-burner search for WHY.
  • A Breeding Ground of Stress: Two reasons I won’t do what is good for me.
  • Stress – Ignoring What Restores You
  • Hiding – Four Ways it Makes Us a Captive to Stress
  • Yep – I have another breeding ground of stress – competition
  • Another Breeding Ground for My Stress: Comparison
  • My Inner Breeding Grounds of Stress – Here is a BIG One!
  • Another Breeding Ground for Stress – Forgetting and Ignoring
  • A 2nd Breeding Ground of Stress- Usurping Control
  • My #1 Inner Breeding Ground of Stress
  • My Inner Breeding Grounds of Stress – A Well versus a Pipe.
  • Dealing with the Inner Breeding Grounds of Stress – Two Options
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  • The INNER Breeding Grounds of Stress
  • Why Your Fitbit Will Let you Down.
  • This blog has temporarily been interrupted by grand-kids.
  • How Grace Ignites our Love
  • Should I Go to a Gay Wedding?
  • Five Guidelines for My Personal Convictions and Opinions
  • Finger Pointing Prickly Issue #3, The Gospel, and Safety.
  • A 2nd Gospel Principle for Dealing with Differing Opinions
  • The Gospel Prequel to Five Guys and Vegetarians
  • Vegetarians, Five Guys burgers, and the Gospel.
  • The Audio of Beliefs and the Video of Convictions
  • Four Reasons Grace is Always Disruptive to Church People.
  • Satisfaction or Panic?
  • “I know you and you won’t change me” – God
  • The Fatal Seduction of Success
  • The Lightness of Grace
  • Boy – Was I Wrong!
  • Is Shame Ever Healthy?
  • Embarrassed, Ashamed, or the Voice of Shame?
  • The Best News Possible!
  • Obedience Made Easy
  • Obedience for the wrong reason is wrong!
  • Why Suffering and Grace go Together
  • Why Peacemakers are Desperate for Grace.
  • Mercy, Parasites and Grace
  • Pretty Poison! That could be the Beatitudes.
  • If it is a Command, I Quit!
  • Aligning The Beatitudes with the Gospel (Part 2).
  • “I Hate the Beatitudes”
  • Interview with Dr. Bryan Chapell
  • How John 14:21 Led me into Burnout
  • God’s Great Gamble
  • Why We Dislike Grace – Romans 3:21 [podcast]
  • The Fallacy of Jeep and Horseback Theology
  • Why the Gospel is Powerful. [podcast 4.19.16]
  • Stirrings from the Road
  • My Depression and the Gospel – Burnout and Depression Part 3 [podcast]
  • Disqualified! (I Cor 9:27)
  • The Terror of Depression – Burnout and Depression Part 2
  • When People Pleasing Pleases God.
  • Burnout and Depression – Part 1
  • One of My Most Discouraging Verses.
  • The Freedom of a New Identity
  • How A Breakfast with Jerry Bridges Changed my Life.
  • I Lost a Hero this Week.
  • The Condemnation of Performancism
  • Signs of Impending Spiritual Burnout
  • Three Ways Hurry Hurts Me…and You!
  • Is God a Pirate That Can Never be Pleased?
  • The Dangerous Virtue of Safety
  • The Six Steps from Grace to License
  • Excellence – a Behavior or a Life?
  • When does Excellence Become Toxic?
  • One-way to What?
  • “Taking up your cross” is not what you think!
  • Short but…
  • Welcome Back!
  • Lessons from a Forest Fire #2
  • Lessons from a Forest Fire – #1
  • My Destructive Running (50 seconds)
  • Does God Motivate us with Threats?
  • What is God Thinking!?
  • The Prodigal’s Suspicion (85 seconds)
  • The Spiritual Disciplines: Going Someplace (22 seconds)
  • If God Had a Face… (55 sec.)
  • A Wild and Crazy Friendship!!
  • Always Set Free for Something
  • A Time to Hold On and a Time to Let Go
  • Live Like It! (5 seconds)
  • John 14:21 – prescription or description? (55 seconds)
  • Why Pleasing God Exhausts Me! (55 seconds)
  • Doing vs. Trusting (62 seconds)
  • Obedience is the Evidence of My Trust. (55 seconds)
  • Is it my behavior that pleases God? (55 sec)
  • Removing the Scare from Fear (60 seconds)
  • Hiding My Sin From You (45 seconds)
  • Resisting Sin Does Not Break it’s Power. (55 seconds)
  • My Worst Day (65 seconds)
  • If Fear is Replaced, What About Philippians 2:12-13? (50 seconds)
  • So What Replaces Fear? (45 seconds)

Lay it Down – Living in the Freedom of the Gospel

Lay it Down – Living in the Freedom of the Gospel

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  • Do Hearing the Lies of Shame mean I am not Mature?
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  • “Laying it Down” – back for another year & a personal note
  • Why Independent People are Unhealthy People!

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