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I recently prayed with a person who felt lost. He was searching for God in his everyday life, and he was coming up empty. One relationship in particular…
John March

January 2023

A little more than 20 years ago, as I was considering quitting my job as an engineer to move overseas as a missionary, I desperately wanted to hear from…
John March

December 2022

My life has felt very full recently. I don’t just mean busy, but it has been that. I mean full in the sense of bursting with good things, with good…
John March

November 2022

As I sit in prayer with pastors, ministry leaders, and contemplatives trying to live their lives according to God’s will, there is one emotion that can…
John March

October 2022

It’s been a very busy start to the school year, and I’m grateful that I got to take a retreat recently. This retreat was short, but it was very restful…
John March

September 2022

It’s hard to love someone who hates you. It’s hard to serve someone who criticizes or rejects you. And yet, this is at the heart of what God calls each…
John March

August 2022

In my previous newsletter, I talked about the call I feel to self-ruin. One of the biggest challenges when we experience ruin is the strong impulse to…
John March

July 2022

This is part 1 of 2 in a two part series on the experience of self-ruin. The second post will come out next week. When I articulate my sense of call…
John March
When I first met Kim, I was leading a church called New City Covenant. She visited our church on a Sunday morning looking for a space where she could…
John March

June 2022

In spiritual direction, I often ask people a variation of the same question whenever it’s clear they are touching on something important. It goes…
John March

May 2022

Not too long ago, I was sitting with someone in prayer and he was feeling deeply hurt. He had gone through a conflict with his wife and he was left…
John March

April 2022

When I was a child, I used to close my left eye to see what the world looked like from my right side. Then I would close my right eye to see what it…
John March
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