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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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Love is Lord

It has been said that "Jesus is Lord" is a three-word summary of the gospel. If Jesus is God and God is love, it follows that Love is Lord. This is Good News. It can only be good news.

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To Know God and Make Him Known

One stop on our family's journey was a season with Youth With A Mission. For over 50 years, YWAM has used the phrase "To know God and make Him known" as a guiding statement. Knowing God is eternal life. It's not a destination; it's a relationship. With God, we experience an eternal kind of life, and we invite others to experience that life with us. Oh, what joy!

That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. ⏤ 1 John 1:3

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Reality Has a Point

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ ⏤ Acts 26:14

We fight it. We ignore it. We escape it. We reimagine it. But reality wins in the end. Get that noise checked out. Fix the leak. Listen to your conscience. It's painful to kick against the pointy prod of truth.

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