Christianity is not a formula, it is a relationship with a real person who invites us into a place of remarkable intimacy and transparency. Though there are principles involved in any successful relationship, Christianity is not about memorizing principles, prayers, and rules. Don’t get me wrong, there are prayers I pray regularly that I memorized, […]
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To be ruined for everything else but Jesus has become my great longing. When I was a young man I surely longed to love Him more, but those desires were often second place to other longings like anointing, success, and happiness. Those desires had some good stuff in them, but were also filled with unholy
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Fear is such a false companion. It’s stated goal is self protection, and the protection of those people and things around that you cherish. The problem is, the goal Fear ever really accomplishes is to put you in harms way. Fear actually exposes you to all kinds of spiritual torment and suffering. Things like, confusion,
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God didn’t come to kill Humanity; He came to restore Humanity to its original position of nobility and glory. Romans 8 says that we HAVE BEEN glorified. That verse doesn’t say WILL BE, but HAS BEEN. Of course there is a sense in which we will be glorified, but because of the Incarnation there is
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Deut. 8:2 “You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. Deut. 8:3 “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and
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Yesterday was Gaudete Sunday when intentionally turn toward “rejoicing” as we draw closer to celebrating the incarnational miracle of Christmas. Advent means ” coming, or to come,” and as we approach the wonders of His coming our perspectives of reality, and our daily hopes are transformed again. C.S. Lewis said, “I believe in Easter just
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I will be on the road this week with most days spent many hours on the road. Unfortunately it may be very difficult to get the devotionals out. Hopefully I will be able to write a few. It so blesses me that there are those who find these short words helpful. I will be able
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Heb. 1:3 He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect imprint and very image of [God’s] nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished
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Isaiah 6 is another glimpse into the Throne Room, the Beauty Realm of God. Isaiah declares that he sees The Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted with His train and His glory filling the Temple. He then confesses that he is RUINED, for he is a man of unclean lips, in light of
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Rev.4:1-5, “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” Immediately I was [a]in the Spirit; and behold,
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