There is one soul care practice you especially need. Incorporating this spiritual discipline into your routine will bless you greatly and help your personality to flourish. You discover your key soul care exercise when you learn your Enneagram intelligence center or spiritual IQ (usually called your triad). Last week in our Soul Shepherding blog and podcast we talked about…
You have a spiritual IQ that is brilliant and powerful, but it’s largely hidden to you. As we’ve been sharing in our recent series of blogs and podcasts, in Soul Shepherding we use the Enneagram as a coaching tool to help you understand your personality and how you can grow in the grace of Christ…
Easter is approaching! To help you open your heart to Christ and the abundant life that comes through his cross and resurrection I have prepared for you a series of meditations based on the ancient Stations of the Cross. I’ve written Biblical meditations and prayers for each station and have used them in my personal…
Some Christians think the Enneagram is New Age or Occult or only for Eastern religions. Because we use the Enneagram as one of our Soul Shepherding tools we’ve received some criticisms and judgmental attacks from Bible doctrine police on our Facebook and YouTube. (Follow us to receive our one-minute encouraging video clips that are reaching…
“Do not worry… Do not worry… Do not worry…” The Psalmist repeats his counsel three times in Psalm 37. (vv 1, 7, 8) Just like Jesus did in Matthew 6. (vv 25, 31, 34) “Do not worry.” This is not the empty reassurance of “Don’t worry. Be happy!” The Bible never advises denial of emotion. The…
A friend of mine was quite late for his appointment with me. He finally arrived breathless as he explained to me that 24 hours in a day just wasn’t enough! He was trying so hard to be a good pastor but he just couldn’t accomplish all that his church required of him. Trying to meet…
At the beginning of our marriage, Kristi and I were both working full-time jobs and going to graduate schools in psychology. Obviously, we didn’t have a lot of free time to be together. But we were very much in love as you can see in this picture taken in 1985! When we did have time…
You long to be pursued in love. So do I. “How are you… really? What do you need? What are you hoping for? How can I pray for you?” When someone expresses genuine personal interest in you, it is healing. When you open up to grace, it is life-giving. But somewhere along the line we…
What do we learn from Jesus about anger in the Bible? Jesus’ way of dealing with anger is quite different than what we think today. If we learn to deal with anger in the way that Jesus taught and modeled we’ll find that we’re living more and more in God’s peace. The way of Christ…
I spent two weeks in a class with twenty pastors at a monastery, taught by Dallas Willard. The foundation of his teaching was on spiritual reality. Teaching that God is Spirit, that we’re eternal beings, and that the Kingdom of God is spiritual, might not sound like anything new. And yet, learning to really appreciate…