Tag Archives: Change

Who’s Laughing Now?

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Joe Chambers

I wrote this blog and posted it on another blog on November 5, 2008, but I wanted to share it here to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. I was living in Eastland, Texas the first year the Civil Rights Act … Continue reading →

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Jesus Sees You

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Joe Chambers

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.” Luke 19:5 In this story, it says that Jesus is looking for Zacchaeus, and … Continue reading →

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Be The Change You Want To See In The World

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Joe Chambers

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. ~ William Butler Yeats Your discipleship program is perfectly designed to produce the disciples you have. ~ Dallas Willard In my first pastorate in Oklahoma there was a crusty old man named Steve. … Continue reading →

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Fierce Spirituality

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Joe Chambers

When I was a twenty-eight-year-old pastor I thought it would be a good idea to preach through the book of Romans verse-by-verse. I was out of my depth. If you have ever spent much time in the book you might … Continue reading →

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The Jail

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Joe Chambers

While Joseph was there in the prison, the LORD was with him. Genesis 39:20 I sat down on a cold plastic chair in a four-foot-wide room; a thick barrier of Plexiglas spanned the table to the ceiling. Tender names of … Continue reading →

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The Voice

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Joe Chambers

One evening a few years ago, I was driving home in the gentle rain of the Pacific Northwest. In the back of my old Jeep lay a gift for the best grandson in the wide world that I had purchased … Continue reading →

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Slow Healing

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Joe Chambers

God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis 1:30) I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I … Continue reading →

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Friends and Monsters

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Joe Chambers

There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24 Other than the covenant relationship between a husband and wife no other relationship has the potential to shape us and bring wholeness to our fragmented souls like that … Continue reading →

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Life with God is an Inside Job

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Joe Chambers

For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. ~ Jesus Is Jesus being meaner than Moses? No, he is saying that … Continue reading →

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Deep Change

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Joe Chambers

“Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.  And I tell you, you are Peter…” Matthew 16: 17-18a I was on a long flight one time … Continue reading →

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