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Thursday
Rethinking What God Drawing Us Actually Means
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I’ve been looking at how the Bible uses the Greek word, ἕλκω, helkō. It’s an interesting word. Fundamentally, it’s about “to draw by inwar...
What Makes You Married?
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Here’s an awkward question: what constitutes a marriage? The Bible has lots of wisdom about how to make your marriage good, and a fair bit...
More Thoughts on Job and His Sorry Friends
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The more time I spend with Job, the more I’m impressed, both with the man and with the lessons that his book teaches me. He started ou...
Literal or Metaphor
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I’ve found myself coming back over and over to Jesus’ conversation with Nick at night in John 3. I have realized something new about Nick’s ...
The Great Cloud of Witnesses: An Exercise
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Here’s an interesting spiritual exercise if you’re interested. Hebrews 12 begins with this image: “Therefore, since we are surrounded ...
Testimony: Date Nights
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Early in our marriage, we realized that marriage is work. If our marriage was going to be as good as we knew it could be, as we hoped it wou...
Thoughts on Being Pruned
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Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that ...
Not Calling Out Sin
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I do not hold to the common Christian religious opinion that says if I see a sin somewhere, then I am somehow obligated to point it out or...
Don't Look At The Waves
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Matthew 14 tells this story. As soon as the meal was finished, [Jesus] insisted that the disciples get in the boat and go on ahead to ...
What Am I Declaring About Myself?
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It had been a really tough night. Only got a few hours sleep, then had a long day, full of physical work. Really tiring. I found myself...
The Chef's Knee
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I was raised in the church, but I was raised by a couple of left-brain, logical thinkers: by a school teacher and an engineer. They taught m...
A Measure of Faith
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Romans 12:3b: “God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” Measure: μέτρον Metron. “determined extent, portion measured off, measur...
Maintaining the Garden
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I had an interesting train of thought this morning in the … er… Library. I have some plants and some starts that will go into the gard...
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Friday
Sometimes we fire blanks.
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Sometimes we fire blanks. Oh, we don't mean to. We think we are firing powerful weapons of war, kicking ass and taking names. ...
Thursday
Learning to Pray Wisely
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The church is learning a lot about declarative prayer in recent years, prayer that issues decrees and declares what shall be, (as differen...
Watch Out for the Yeast!
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“Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast [the influence] of the Pharisees and that of Herod.” The religious spirit an...
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