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First Love – Habakuk Shows Us How
When we lose hope it is so easy to take our attention off of Jesus. WHEN YOU ARE IN THE VALLEY you must know and believe: This is not a superficial state of denial—It’s when you look the truth in the face, and you still trust. ______________________________________________ Habbakuk 3:16-18 (NLT) I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of…
Seed Carriers and Image Bearers
For a long time in church circles, I have noticed three ways we engage with God.
Alerting the Flesh to Spirit Living
To bring our flesh into alignment, we have to discipline ourselves and have a high awareness of our weaknesses and strengths. Here is an excerpt from Dr. Craig Smee’s latest book Amazingly Dangerous.
The What Hustle
In the hustle and bustle of life, we can often get caught up in life’s “whats” keeping us very busy. “What” I have to do, “what” I have to get, “what” I have to say… But when we compare the hustle to the life proposed to us in scripture, we leave much of the passion, fun, and excitement of life behind as we rush forward to get the “what” done! Haggai recorded God’s answer to this. When God saw the…
Adaption Adoption – The Church’s COVID Response
The church has gone through the most significant adaptions in its history. The church’s rhythms have been fundamentally unchanged for way too long, and now, having made a ton of adaptions, what new behaviors ought we to keep?