Thanksgiving Day 1970 was not a good one in the Lynch home. Dad and I were not in a good place. By 17, I had developed into a fast talking, rebellious punk, with a sharp, clever and sarcastic vocabulary and attitude. I was usually angry, flippant or indifferent at home. People outside my family thought [...]
Filed under: HOPE by John Lynch
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Several weeks ago, my wife Stacey and I got into a fight. It was over nearly nothing. But that we would get so sideways revealed much deeper sadness and disappointment had been lingering around for awhile. It was one of those ugly fights, flooding far beyond the banks of the stated issue. Blame is eventually [...]
Filed under: AUTHENTICITY, GRACE by John Lynch
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
After thousands of years of sincerely religious people bluffing and play-acting with love, God gives His children a new heart: completely new creatures, fully righteous, without any condemnation, who can actually live out [...]
Filed under: AFFIRMATION, COMMUNITY by John Lynch
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Maybe it’s just me. (I’m told it often is)…But I witnessed something wonderful and maybe even historic at our TrueFaced 12 Intensive Conference, held last week in Scottsdale, Arizona. When we started inviting others, back in the early-90s, to partner with us in these truths of identity and environments of grace-it was often kind of [...]
Filed under: GRACE by John Lynch
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