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Karl Forehand Biography

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Book:Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

Source: Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

“. Could it be true that knowing always requires some level of unknowing? When we give up our death grip on certainty, we open the door expanding our understanding and deepening our consciousness. I know it is scary, but good adventures tend to be like that.”

Knowing Adventure Certainty Unknowing

Book:The Tea Shop

Source: The Tea Shop

“God is experienced most vividly in relationship.”

Love God Relationship

Book:The Tea Shop

Source: The Tea Shop

“I am learning to “sit” with problems and own them instead of trying to bypass them. I am learning to empathize with people instead of trying to find a quick solution to their issues.”

Empathy Sitting Bypassing

Book:The Tea Shop

Source: The Tea Shop

“We assume that God is doing something he does not want to do. If we assume that we are originally bad, and he cannot hardly stand to look at us, then it is almost like something or someone must talk him into loving us.”

Love Acceptance

Book:Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

Source: Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

“According the Jesus' life and work, the second half of human history was supposed to be characterized by love, mercy, and grace.”

Love Jesus Grace Mercy

Author:Karl Forehand

“When parents orchestrate their children's circumstances, they produce immature adults.”

Children Discipline Parenting Control

Book:Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

Source: Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

“The tyranny of the urgent shouts down any reasoning that would slow it down from getting where it’s going (even if it doesn’t know for sure where it is headed at the time).”

Solitude Quietness Tyranny Of The Urgent

Book:Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

Source: Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

“Jesus stressed that God does not do drone strikes on people just because they ignore or offend him.”

War Violence Retribution Angry God

Book:Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

Source: Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

“Others have passed faith onto us and we borrow those customs and traditions that help form us. But, sometimes, we also need to adopt new practices that helps us on the journey.”

Journey Customs Formation Traditions

Book:Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

Source: Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

“Spiritual bypassing separates us from our humanity and all its messiness and struggles and pain and It makes us feel good briefly.”

Avoiding Avoidance Platitudes Catch Phrases Spiritual Bypassing Bypassing

Book:Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

Source: Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

“...wouldn’t God be more interested in being with the less favored child than the one that already has it figured out?”

Certainty Favor Where Is God

Book:The Tea Shop

Source: The Tea Shop

“Bypassing the issue does not solve the root causes of that issue, it just makes a person feel better until the issue reappears in different ways or in different parts of the body.”

Avoiding Avoidance Root Cause Bypassing

Book:The Tea Shop

Source: The Tea Shop

“We cannot say we are followers of Christ and not love our neighbors and our enemies. It is incongruent and doesn’t even make sense when reading His words.”

Love Neighbors Love Enemies

Book:The Tea Shop

Source: The Tea Shop

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