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    Month: November 2022

    More Than Necessary

    by Chris CairnsDevotional ReflectionPosted on November 6, 2022November 7, 2022No Comments

    “You are so much more than necessary…. you.are.loved.”  I heard M. Craig Barnes say this at a Young Life Staff conference many, many years ago, sometime around 1998, the first time I had burned myself out in ministry. There is something about being in a service industry that makes high capacity people move toward any …

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