Healthy Leaders

22 Mar '14

Spiritual Formation: What it is, and How it is Done

22/03/2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Body-Soul-Spirit, Blog, Healthy Leaders

by Dallas Willard.  A few scripture passages point us to the place in human personality that is the focus of spiritual formation… Proverbs 4:20-24 reminds us to keep the words of God’s wisdom “in the midst of your heart,” and that from there “they are life to those who find them, and health to all their whole body.” (vss. 21-22 NAS) Then comes the exhortation, “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.” (vs. 23).

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14 Jul '12

Flows of Grace

14/07/2012 | Comments: 1 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Healthy Leaders, Body-Soul-Spirit, Blog, Healthy Leaders

From Lynn Heatley. Lately, I have been thinking about seasons and how they flow with various intensities.  And it reminded me of the ebb and flow of waves….always constant, never changing.  As I pondered this, I began to see God’s grace in how He arranges life….flows of intensity along with flows of rest, a time to work and a time to sleep, a time for winter where the fields go silent and deep and times of harvest with much activity and outflow.

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Jesus Wept

07/05/2012 | Comments: 5 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Body-Soul-Spirit, Blog, Thriving Cities, Healthcare, Blog, Healthy Leaders

By Lynn Heatley.  I have been thinking about deep things like life, death and eternity this past week.  Actually, I often do a lot of thinking about these things since I am a hospice nurse and God has made me to live in deep waters!  But what stirred my heart recently was thinking about a story from the Bible.  It is found in the book of John and it talks about a friend of Jesus, named Lazarius, who had just died…

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23 Jul '06

Cultivating the Soul

23/07/2006 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Body-Soul-Spirit, Blog, Healthy Leaders

By Gordon MacDonald. Thirty years ago, when real estate in this part of New Hampshire was cheap, my wife, Gail, and I purchased an old farm and called it Peace Ledge. During the 1800s the land’s valuable timber had been clear-cut and transformed into pasture where enormous work-horses could be bred and raised. Then around 1900 the farm went belly-up, was abandoned, and, after seventy years, became a forest again.

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23 Oct '04

Living Out a Grateful Life

23/10/2004 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Body-Soul-Spirit, Blog, Updates, Spiritual Insights

By Lynn Heatley. I have been pondering the work of sanctification in our lives (sanctification is a big word that basically means the work/ongoing process of the Holy Spirit in our lives that brings our whole nature into being more and more like Jesus). As I have pondered this, I have thought of how so many seemed to have gotten stuck in this whole life process in their understanding and consequently, in their lives. And the “getting stuck” seems to be centered on two words: Receiving vs Earning.

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23 Mar '04

A More Excellent Way – How Love Reconciles All Things

23/03/2004 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Body-Soul-Spirit, Blog, Thriving Cities, Family, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Managing Conflict, Blog, Updates, Spiritual Insights

By Lynn Heatley.  In this section, I would like to speak on the nature and overflow of the love of God and how it is an essential aspect in the ministry of reconciliation. In the twelfth chapter of the first book of Corinthians, Paul speaks of the value of spiritual gifts and how all the gifts are needed to have a wholeness that reflects the nature of Christ.  He then transitions into the next chapter by calling his readers to a higher place; a place of understanding of how love is more important than any particular gift.  He summons us to come up higher to a broader place of understanding and lifestyle:  “And now I will show you the most excellent way”.  We will benefit greatly as we follow the Lord in this call to a more excellent way.

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16 Mar '03

A Call to the Net: Divine Seasons of Networking

16/03/2003 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Blog, Updates, Spiritual Insights, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Teambuilding, Blog, Thriving Cities

by Lynn Heatley.  Have you ever had those times of revelation where you felt like a “lightbulb” went on in the interior of your soul?  Sometimes, the Lord leads me on treasure hunts, except usually, I do not understand that I am on one until all the clues suddenly appear together and then they say something dramatic.  So my story begins.

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22 Mar '97

The Basic Principles of Biblical Peacemaking

22/03/1997 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: Lynn | In: Blog, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Body-Soul-Spirit, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Managing Conflict, Blog, Healthy Leaders, Teambuilding

by Ken Sande.  The Bible provides us with a simple yet powerful system for resolving conflict. This system is summarized in The Peacemaker’s Pledge. These principles are so simple that they can be used to resolve the most basic conflicts of daily life. But they are so powerful that they have been used to mediate and arbitrate bitter divorce and child custody actions, embezzlement situations, church divisions, multi-million dollar business disputes, malpractice lawsuits, and terrible sexual abuse cases. These principles are briefly discussed below. 

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