Natalie Iguchi

Wife to Taka, mom to Brooklyn & Kaia. Pastor. Explorer. Book devourer. ✨The fullest life is one emptied out for others!

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

@BethMooreLPM Might be pushing it with strength too Beth… can’t be showing anyone up with these guns ya know? 😉

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

Does God SEE me?
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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

To forgive does not mean to deny evil, but to prevent it from generating further evil. It is not to say that nothing has happened, but to do everything possible to ensure that resentment does not determine the future.

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

Overcoming your barriers
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[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

Overthinking can be paralyzing in both your personal and your professional life. I shared a little bit about what helped me move forward in my own journey here:

https://t.co/U38nLMmBiW

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

I often get asked "What do you mean you can 'hear God?"' It's not as spooky or complicated as you might think.

https://t.co/AFPk73GY4t

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

Every day we watch it unfold and seem stunned and surprised by the brazenness, the arrogance, the vanity, the cruelty.

But American evangelicalism’s intoxication with power began long before this. Honestly, I’m more surprised when I see displays of humility.

I’ve been working with these dynamics for more than two decades, mostly among church leaders. For as much progress as I thought we made, I’ve seen a doubling down for the sake of power, persona, platform, patriotism. We’re addicts not yet ready to take the first step - the freeing first step of confessing our powerlessness and neediness. The first step of humility.

The reckoning is taking longer and is far messier than I and many I am connected to imagined. We hoped that we’d be humbled by now…that we’d stand aghast at what we’d created and enabled, and repent, with deep grief and sorrow for what we had become.

But we’re entangled in the idolatrous grip of nationalism, and too enamored with the faux-power and pseudo-supremacy it’s offering right now to see the costly sacrifices it demands… even how it’s hollowing out our very souls. It’s taking longer, and it seems to be getting darker. The daily public displays - even the AI generated visions of a New Babylon with its gold statue of the hoped for new Nebuchadnezzar - only seem to humor and embolden the intoxicated. Mercy.

I don’t know much, but what I do know is that the way forward is not by matching power with power, but by following the crucified One. That is the path of tears, the path of solidarity with the lowly, the path of humility.

Blessed are those who come to the end of themselves. Blessed are those who mourn. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the hungry and thirsty for justice.

This is the way. Stay hungry and thirsty, my friends.

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

@ashleyrattner Suits!

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

I often get asked “what do you think of that situation?” People are usually asking about the latest public scandal that I know little to nothing about. And on my best days, I don’t indulge. I’m involved in the messy details of many different situations each and every day that won’t make the Internet. And those are complicated enough. I try to live the wisdom of St. Teresa of Avila that it’s enough to tend to what’s near and close, that none of us can save the world.

I know this: on the days that I’m weary, I do generalize. I don’t see the uniqueness of people and situations. I make rash judgments. I make assumptions. I paint everything with the same brush, and usually a negative and skeptical one. I fail to live up to the curiosity and humility I call others to. I hate this about myself and I’m learning to have compassion on myself, because I can’t ignore that this is trauma’s legacy in my own body.

It’s daily work to remain clear, curious, and compassionate. To continue to heal what’s within so that I can be a healing presence to others.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

Fellow believers, we’re in this because of Jesus. Not because of any human leader, mentor, teacher, family member or friend. We look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. He is worthy of all praise, gratitude and honor. He is setting himself apart as holy in our eyes. Our solitary, singular and sinless Savior and Lord. So let God be praised and every human bow down.

[David Cassidy @DPCassidyTKC]

“Be careful lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon.” - Nietzsche

[chuck degroat @chuckdegroat]

“The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.”

~Henri Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

@fmchurchusa Glad everyone is ok. Praying the home can be restored. 🙏

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

@edstetzer @biolau @talbottheology Congratulations! Well deserved. We just visited Biola with our daughter today- she loved it! We were all touched by your hand written note. Thanks for encouraging her when you preached at Voice- it went a long way (despite her angsty teen facial expressions 😂).

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Christian churches are not as a rule, model communities of good behavior.

They are, rather, [to be] places where human misbehavior is brought out in the open, faced, and dealt with.

- Eugene Peterson

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

It meeeee….You can take the girl out of the Midwest but you can’t take the Midwest out of the girl! 😂🫠

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Most people getting out of an Uber: “thanks”

Midwesterner getting out of an Uber: “Good luck with your custody battle! There’s no way the courts won’t side with you. Stay strong Amanda. I love you!”

[David Cassidy @DPCassidyTKC]

The Bible on Kindness as a way of life

Practice kindness and compassion…the fruit of the Spirit is...kindness… put on a heart of compassion, kindness; in your godliness, brotherly kindness...I will surely show kindness to you ; Do not let kindness and truth leave you...”

Kindness costs nothing and gains so much for all.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

Likeness to Christ is not measured by external things but by the extent to which a person’s character bears fruit that resembles the fruit of the Spirit. Not by numbers but by kindness. Not by fame but by humility and self-control.

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

@chrisrcooke @LittleLauraMcK This has been what I have witnessed and experienced myself. I’ve planted and revitalized- but hands down most painful for the pastor is revitalization. Pitchforks emerge when talk of changes arise.

[Natalie Iguchi @Natalieiguchi]

I’ve lived in California for 8 years now and I still go outside just to make sure I feel the sunshine, even though it’s sunny everyday here 😂

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

The Midwest urge to go outside when it’s nice out because you know if may be another 6 months until this happens again