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Saying Yes Changes Everything
ByDerrick Hurst December 1, 2025December 1, 2025
Kick off Advent by reflecting on Mary’s story from Luke 1:26-38. An unlikely young woman said yes to God’s impossible call. This Monday blog post challenges you to stop waiting for perfect and start showing up for your own God-sized opportunities this week. Embrace faith, overcome fear, and become the unexpected hero in your story. #Advent2025 #MaryTheUnlikelyHero #FaithInAction #StopWaitingStartDoing #GodsCall #UnexpectedHeroes #CourageToSayYes #LivingWordGalena #AdventChallenge #FaithOverFear #MondayMotivation #ChristianLifeCoach #ShowUpForGod #Luke1 #GraceInTheOrdinary
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Leadership

Why Losing Focus Is Killing Your Mission
ByDerrick Hurst November 25, 2025November 19, 2025
Discover why losing focus in church leadership and personal growth damages discipleship. Learn how prioritizing budgets and attendance over people leads to cloning instead of thriving. This bold post challenges churches and leaders to refocus on true disciple-making and avoid common pitfalls that harm spiritual growth.
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Coaching

The Power of Coaching in Personal Growth
ByDerrick Hurst November 20, 2025October 31, 2025
Mentoring, counseling, and coaching aren’t the same — and knowing the difference matters. In this post, Derrick explains how coaching uniquely empowers growth by unlocking potential without giving all the answers.
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Finding Gratitude in Life’s Messy Moments
ByDerrick Hurst November 14, 2025October 23, 2025
Gratitude isn’t just for the good days. It’s for the messy, chaotic ones too. In this post, we’ll reflect on how God meets us in the middle of life’s chaos and why the mess might just be the place He’s most at work.
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Leadership

Rest as Resistance
ByDerrick Hurst November 7, 2025October 21, 2025
Confession: I’m competitive. I know! Shocker! I’m competitive with myself, with the weights, with life, with pretty much everything around me. So sometimes I skip rest days. Because who wants to take a break when there’s more to lift, more to do, more to “fix”? But here’s the thing I’m learning in my years of…
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Lessons on Grace: Mowing Through Life’s Messes
ByDerrick Hurst October 31, 2025October 31, 2025
A fall reflection on how blowing leaves became a lesson in grace because sometimes God’s mercy shows up in the noise, the mess, and the endless work of everyday life.
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Stop Making Life Harder Than It Has To Be!
ByDerrick Hurst October 21, 2025October 21, 2025
This Sunday, we dug into 1 Thessalonians 5:12–28. Paul wasn’t writing to pastors to tell them to toughen up. He was writing to the church to remind believers how to live together well. Here’s the deal: God’s will for us isn’t complicated. It’s radical in its simplicity: That’s it. Nothing flashy. Nothing Instagram-worthy. Just daily, gritty,…
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No Excuses. No Apologies. All In.
ByDerrick Hurst October 16, 2025October 16, 2025
Hey Jesus following types. Did you know that if you’re a Jesus follower then, following Jesus is not optional? I know that sounds crazy but too often we make it sound like it’s an option. We often live like we can choose if and when we decide to follow him. Look I get it. It’s…
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Have We Replaced the Kingdom with a Congregation?
ByDerrick Hurst October 6, 2025October 6, 2025
Somewhere along the way, the Church (Kingdom of God globally) started acting like the church (congregations in local communities). We traded Kingdom vision for congregational maintenance.We started measuring success by program attendance instead of life transformation.We have become more obsessed with our church’s growth than God’s Kingdom advancing. And that’s a problem! When the Church Becomes Too Small Jesus didn’t die to build a church brand.He…
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Established and Unmoved
ByDerrick Hurst September 29, 2025September 29, 2025
We all want something solid to stand on. Something that won’t shift when life shakes. Most of us know the feeling of watching the ground give way from health scares to job loss, from betrayal to grief. The question underneath all of it is this: Will I be okay when everything around me is not? That’s…
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