Practicing the Presence of God

How Do I Feel God’s Presence Throughout the Day? (podcast)

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Igor only feels God’s presence when he is reading the Bible. Greg offers some ideas to carry that experience out into his day.  Episode 509 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0509.mp3

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Wake Up to God’s Presence

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Jesus taught us to “remain” in him. We read this in John 15:4-5: Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine….

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Podcast: Is It Wrong To Pray to Saints?

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Greg discusses the risks and issues associated with praying to anyone or anything other than God. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0242.mp3

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How God Changes the World

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All who place their trust in Jesus look forward to a day when he will return and fully establish the kingdom of God. When this happens, Scripture promises that everything will change. There will be…

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Coming Home

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The only way we can experience the life God has for us is to give up trying to acquire it on our own. We must surrender ourselves completely to God. This is not merely a…

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True Life Now

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Whether we want to admit it or not, experience teaches us that life is a perpetual, relentless process of decay, one that we know inevitably leads toward death. And this fills many of us with…

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What, Father, Do You Desire This Minute?

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Frank Laubach, a 20th century missionary to Philippines, wrote about the challenge of being continually aware of the presence of God and learning to respond to God’s promptings. He wrote, “I feel simply carried along…

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The Easiest (and Hardest) Spiritual Discipline

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The glory of God surrounds you every second of every day. What a profound truth! But most of the time—like a dark cloud blocking the sun—the mental chatter about the past and the future keeps…

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Dancing with the Triune God

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What does it mean to live in the presence of God now? How do we do this? What does it mean to be in the presence of God for eternity? In this video produced by…

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The God of the Here and Now

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Several years ago an acquaintance told me she and her husband were going to travel to Lakeland, FL, where a “healing revival” had purportedly broken out. When I asked them if they were going because…

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Prayer When You’re Anxious

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The following is adapted from a prayer exercise that Greg wrote for his book, Present Perfect. If you’re feeling anxious today (or even if you’re not anxious at all) we encourage you to spend a little time…

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The Grand Illusion

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As long as we buy the lie that Life can be found outside of a moment-by-moment relationship with God, we will determine that our problem is that we simply don’t have enough. If only we…

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How to Overcome the Flesh Mindset

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Unless you have taken intentional steps to change, the way you presently experience yourself and the world around you was mostly chosen for you, not by you. Think about that. You inherited a way of…

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The Impossible Command of God

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Paul tells us we are to be “imitators of God” (Eph 5:1). The word for “imitate” (mimetai) literally means to “mimic” or to “shadow.” This means we are to do exactly what we see God…

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Supported by God

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Here’s an exercise that has helped me experience God’s closeness and helped me feel “at home” regardless of my circumstances. It involves using the incredible gift of your physical body to help you remember God’s…

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Don’t Be a Functional Atheist at Christmas

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All of us raised in Western culture have been strongly conditioned by what is called a secular worldview. The word secular comes from the Latin saeculum, meaning “the present world.” A secular worldview, therefore, is…

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Life to the Full

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What does it mean to live life to the full? Greg addresses this question in this short video by The Work of the People.  

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Living As If God Exists

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It is so easy to do our daily stuff of life as though God does not exist. This is not a statement about our beliefs about God’s existence. It’s a statement about our moment-by-moment living….

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Showing Up

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Jonathan Kos-Read via Compfight Shauna Niequist over at  Donald Miller’s Storyline blog shared some thoughts on Why You Should Stop Waiting for Life to be Perfect. She points out that sometimes this waiting for perfection gets…

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