Jesus became what was true about us that we might become what is true about Him. “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:21. The Christian life is not a reformed or improved life. The Christian life […]
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Three different times in the book of the Revelation it is said about Jesus that He “is, was, and is to come.” Trying to explain all that those words represent would be like trying to explain infinity. Let me just emphasize one extraordinary truth that description of Jesus speaks of. My story became Jesus’s story
One Thing 4/28/21 It’s no longer your story; it’s His Read More »
“For we are His masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus…” Ephesians 2:10. When a great artist creates a masterpiece, they believe in what they have created. Artists, don’t like it when other people criticize their masterpiece because they know that what they have created is a stroke of their own genius. The lump of clay
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Ephesians 4:13,15 NASB95 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. [15] but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all ways into
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Luke 5:4-11 NASB95 When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” [5] Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.” [6] When they
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Rom.8:29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; We all share a common destiny as Christians; to be like Jesus. What does it mean to be Christlike? Most of the time, in evangelical circles, to be
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Blessed are those who, instead of trying to attain Christ-likeness by the imitation of Christ have come to realize that they have already been planted in His likeness. Outward imitation of Christ has little place in spiritual growth because it is an impossibility. Outward imitation does not accomplish inward transformation. Instead, inward transformation because of
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2 Corinthians 5:13-15 NASB95 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. [14] For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; [15] and He died for all, so that they who live might
One Thing 4/19/21 Living the “beside ourselves” kind of life Read More »
Last week when Bishop Chuck was talking about the effortlessness of Christ living His life through us, he mentioned rest on the inside while moving forward on the outside. It made me think about the last year of shutdowns and shelter-in-place orders. As things slowed on the outside, there was the temptation for there to
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True Christian discipleship is the process of learning to live from Christ instead of for Christ. Imagine Christ clothing himself in your personality and body as the vehicle through which He is going to live His life. Thinking and looking from you, what do you believe Jesus’s thoughts and feelings are? Does He feel anxious
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