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Tag: Easy Yoke

When You Feel Like You’re Not Enough

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Easy Yoke, Family, Perfectionism

During the fourteen years that I was fasting from publishing books, Kristi and I were on a retreat with a group of church leaders. Being quiet and still before God opened up my heart so I became aware of feeling deficient and was tempted to break my fast. I felt I was not doing enough…

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Jesus Shows Us Healthy Relational Boundaries

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Abba, Boundaries, Easy Yoke, Family, Parenting, Secure Attachment

When Jesus lived on earth, he never walked on eggshells around people, worried about upsetting them, clung to them for approval, or pushed to get them to do what they should. He was self-aware, secure, solid, purposeful, straightforward, loving. How did Jesus do this? How was he able to be so loving, even to difficult…

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Why Jesus Didn’t Burn Out

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Apprentice of Jesus, Boundaries, Easy Yoke, Pastors

One thing that helped turn me around before I totally burned out was to look prayerfully at the life of Jesus. I studied the Gospels carefully and learned some surprising things that I hadn’t been taught in church. I saw Jesus setting boundaries repeatedly. I share the full results of this study into the confident…

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Rest: Resting in Your Identity

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Easy Yoke, Identity in Christ

Your fingerprint is unique to you — it’s a physical mark of your identity. What about your personal identity? What defines who you are? Imagine if the cross of Jesus Christ was the most dominant marking of your self-image? You’d know that you are so loved! You’d be so stable and confident! I show you…

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Rest: Coming Off an Adrenaline High

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Christ's Ambassador, Easy Yoke, Stories, Unhurried

I love adrenaline and how it makes me feel energetic, confident, important, even elated. And I get more work done in less time! Adrenaline is one of the body’s natural antidepressants and anti-anxiety agents. It’s truly a wonder drug! Just writing this sentence I’d like to get a hit of that stuff now! It’s difficult…

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Spiritual Disciplines Are Dung!

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Dallas Willard, Easy Yoke, Spiritual Disciplines

Putrid smelling dung — that’s what spiritual disciplines become without love. My comment surprised the pastor I was coaching. But I heard Dallas Willard say on a few occasions something like, “The disciplines for life in Christ are not what is important. We make too big a deal about them.” He was concerned about legalism,…

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Jesus’ “Easy Yoke” is Unhurried — Especially at Christmas!

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Advent, Easy Yoke, Unhurried

As Christmas approaches it seems we have to go faster and faster! How can we be unhurried? The traffic keeps getting worse. The lines in the stores keep getting longer. We don’t want to miss out on special events, parties, and gathering with family and friends. We have presents to wrap and food to prepare.…

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Boundaries With Family For the Holidays

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Apprentice of Jesus, Boundaries, Easy Yoke, Family

We love being with family for the holidays — or maybe not! It can be stressful! And in some family relationships it’s awkward or uncomfortable. Personalities don’t mesh, or there’s distance or unresolved conflicts. Jesus experienced this. He had conflict in his family too! In my book Your Best Life in Jesus’ Easy Yoke we…

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Relaxed. In December?!

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Advent, Dallas Willard, Easy Yoke, Stories

As we celebrate the Prince of Peace we may get robbed of peace! What a tragic irony that would be! Let’s resist the cultural swirl of hurrying here and there and internalizing stress. We can relax… even in December! It’s all about how we react to stress. For instance, I had a conversation with Dallas…

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Breathe Your Way Into the New Year

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Bill Gaultiere
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Tags: Anxiety, Breath Prayers, Easy Yoke, Unhurried

Like me, maybe you set aside much of your normal work for the Christmas break and this week you have a lot to do! There’s a gravitational pull to “Hurry and catch up!” But that’s not the best way. “Breathe. Walk it out in Jesus’ easy yoke.” That’s much better. So today, as I often…

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