Dr.Jay Passavant

Founding Pastor of North Way Christian Community; passionate about family, learning, cars and all things Kingdom!

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the Journey… is the End …!: In a recent update I specifically shared about the “Journey of Healing” that I embarked upon a little over four months ago when an unexpected X-ray revealed that cancerous cells had invaded my lungs totally unexpectedly and… https://t.co/MoHElWTuaH

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Defeating Isolation: One of the least talked about “symptoms” of cancer treatment and for that matter, many other serious afflictions, is a tendency toward isolation.  Given the severity of the symptoms of the disease, let alone those of the medical… https://t.co/Gmfzx2AwP5

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How We Think About Prayer: Over the past several weeks, as I tend to be spending more and more time in prayer, it has occurred to me that there are so many different aspects and understandings of how prayer actually “works”. It seems that both in the… https://t.co/AtuqzDdHZf

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Humbled by Perspective: This past Monday in the late afternoon, we had some very welcome visitors. Emmanuel and Allison Pothen from India, along with their two children Karis and Nico, stopped by our home accompanied by Emmanuel’s sister Grace. Although… https://t.co/UjSI4oA6gJ

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The Overlooked Blessing of Intercession: To the many of you who kindly subscribe to this blog, I do apologize up front for the somewhat spotty messaging over the past number of weeks. It’s not been because of a lack of desire, but honestly, an… https://t.co/DbU6eSwXah

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An Unexpected Curve in Life’s Journey: Dear Friends, Let me begin by apologizing for the rather extended delays between blog posts over the past number of weeks. I was reluctant to give any general information out about the situation that we have been… https://t.co/Lo0QCXajBs

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Seasons Change: If you’ve been in Pittsburgh for the past few months you know what a tough winter we had but now we’re seeing the clear change of seasons into springtime. Not only are the first signs of buds on some of the plants coming forth but birds… https://t.co/CJ7Bl7mZLy

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How Does God Display His Greatness?: Just a couple weeks ago, Carol and I were blessed to visit our son and his wife and four children who were spending several weeks in Florida and had room for us to come down for about a week. It was a great break in… https://t.co/McN9I2fNrY

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Discerning the Times: In just a little over two weeks since the inauguration of President Joe Biden and his new administration, it is increasingly clear that the divide in our nation is not on the way to “unity and healing” that he proposed. In fact I… https://t.co/BJJtP4QZyE

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Shifting Our Focus: Just recently, I was asked to lead a season of prayer over a group of staff members and leadership who were gathered together for a very brief but important time of focusing on the year ahead. These were the women (and at least one… https://t.co/3Llho9VX3u

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Avoiding the Pitfalls: One of the unforeseen consequences of the final few weeks of the Trump presidency and the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States has been the rather harsh and sometimes dismissive reaction from friends… https://t.co/b4UOIEYxdi

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And In Other News…: With all that’s going on in the political world in these days, let alone the ongoing pandemic news which seems to change daily, I wanted to take an opportunity to give you something uplifting and potentially very encouraging to… https://t.co/oLXBAPRWSN

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The Hope of a New Year: On March 1st of 2020, Carol and I flew out to Tucson, Arizona, for a much anticipated two week stay in the small city that we have come to really enjoy even though we don’t travel there as frequently as we used to. Those two weeks… https://t.co/nsKGPB3853

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The Christmas Spirit: Over the past 10 days or so, I’ve been blessed to see God move in a way that I’ve found to be both inspiring and challenging. On December 7th, we had a few subcontractors show up to do some remodeling work in our home that we had… https://t.co/LbNPOe2i6d

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The Right Time for Christmas: One of the important details about the Christmas story that often gets overlooked is just how specific the Father was in the timing of sending His Son.  God’s timetable is all over the Christmas story.  When we see this… https://t.co/uObFTOufon

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Thanksgiving Day 2020: It may seem somewhat counterintuitive to focus on giving thanks just when the on-going challenges of the covid-19 pandemic seem to be pummeling our nation once again. However, I think the healthiest way to view this Thanksgiving is… https://t.co/ByQEGJPTGk

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Greater Revelation: In these very uncertain and often discouraging times that we are in, especially as we move toward Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year, many are praying for a revelation of what God wants us to be expecting in the days ahead. I’m… https://t.co/2XZwjPAWD8

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The Antidote: Over the past months, and especially the past couple of weeks, there has been no shortage of difficult, negative and discouraging news, particularly regarding the pandemic, but also with respect to the divide in our nation. Some of us have… https://t.co/bbZm9ho619

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An Oasis Moment: When we hear the word “oasis” we normally tend to associate it with a lush green patch of vegetation and perhaps even some trees because of a very direct and concentrated water supply in a very dry and difficult terrain. For people who… https://t.co/JpmDDTS3lJ

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The Light of Men: In an effort to describe the dynamic tension in which we find ourselves in this season of national and even global fear and uncertainty, perhaps the best biblical language I can land on is that of “light and darkness.” The rise of… https://t.co/jtzI479zKB