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As I was grilling some pecans, spices, and onions to dress up spinach leaves for lunch, I was thinking about how many things I’ve been trapped in stress or worry over, and an interesting correlation came to mind. I heat the spices to activate the seasonings, sauté the onions to soften the texture, and toast…
Have you ever considered the adventure God offers us each day with the circumstances that arrive? An adventure is defined as a bold, usually risky undertaking, an exciting undertaking, a very unusual experience, and a hazardous action of uncertain outcome. Doesn’t that sound like faith?! Then why do we think and speak of a roller…
We can only be ‘like’ Christ if we are ‘in’ Christ. A personal unification in Him will bring about a sanctification through us like Him. The blessings that we have are all ‘in’ Christ (Ephesians 1). We have been crucified with Christ, raised with Christ, seated in the heavenly places in Christ. Our identity is…
Sometimes we get caught in the idea that if ’good’ things are happening to me, God must be blessing my walk. But when we examine the book of Ezekiel, we find God’s ’goodness’ isn’t for the people’s sake at all. In fact, in the Israelites’ rebellion, God was still restoring for HIS namesake. In Ezekiel…
What if nothing less than the flagrant fame of Jesus Christ became your life ambition? What if the wholly surrendered life in Christ is captured for what it really is: the most exhilarating adventure available for human flesh and blood. It is the offer to live for something so much greater. It is the offer…
George Matheson of Scotland echoes the discipline of his personal despair in his discipline of his personal despair in his book Thoughts for Life’s Journey when he book Thoughts for Life’s Journey when he writes: My soul, reject not the place of thy writes: My soul, reject not the place of thy prostration! It has…
A new look at the phrase “rock bottom”. Many people use this to say they’ve reached their lowest in life. When I hear that reference, I think about how when we reach our “bottom” in life, that’s where we find the Rock. He never leaves; it’s just that sometimes it takes us reaching the bottom…
Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mountaintop with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. “If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:23). The moment you forsake the matter of sanctification or neglect…
3 words, never.give.up. This life that we live is a fight to the finish. I was watching the Olympics the other night, and they flashed back to 2008, where one of the female runners who was doing hurdles stopped almost toward the end of the race, fell to her knees, and cried. She didn’t even…
Psalm 121:4 says that our God neither slumbers nor sleeps. I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, it was always easier to fall asleep knowing my dad was awake and sitting out in the living room with the light on. Even more so, your Heavenly Father is ALWAYS awake, so you…