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It would be just like him

The God of the Bible looks like Jesus, the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being. It would be just like him to go to the cross.

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Practicing Our Scales

Imagine if our walk with Christ, representing his kingdom in the world, were as practiced and pure as Hania Rani’s fingers on the piano keys.

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Rescue

I practice the spiritual discipline of rescuing earthworms on paved surfaces. It's a reminder to me that I can pause what I'm doing, get a little dirty, and help. Also, that I've been given the responsibility to care.

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Your Roots Are Showing

The life that I bring to the world can only be found in my attachment to Christ. His presence with me is essential.

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Connection

I live in a U.S. county with traffic problems. It's a peninsula, and what's not swamp land has been developed. Building new roads is difficult and expensive. Making things worse, roads that could connect don't.

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The parable of the would-be sower

“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold”
— Jesus, in Luke 8:5-8 ESV

A sower meant to sow his seed. But he never got around to it. So the condition of the soil didn't matter.

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I am the church

I am the church in my secret life

I am the church in my public life

I am the church in my private life

I am the church in my religious life

I am the church in my vocational life

I am the church in my personal life

I am the church in my ministry life

I am the church in my political life

I am the church in my social life

I am the church in my one lived life

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One was not like the Other

“For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done for you. Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.”
— Jesus, in John 13:15-17 CSB

Last night I was unloving.

Last night I was unlike Jesus.

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