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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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Known

I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. — John 10:14-15

"I know my sheep and my sheep know me." We've been told that Christianity isn't a religion, but a relationship. Do we really believe it? Jesus' language here is so personal and relational. This is what eternal life looks like.

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Lavish Love

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! — 1 John 3:1a

And that is what we are! (v3:1b) It's generally accepted that John was Jesus's closest disciple. John likely knew Jesus better than anyone, which would mean that John had the best taste of eternal life. Maybe it's why he talks so much about eternal life. From that position, he makes this incredible statement in 1 John 3. I want the truth of it to sink in the same way it did for John.

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The Message

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. — Colossians 3:16

We consider Jesus's divinity, his place as a member of the Trinity, coexisting with the Father and the Spirit from endless antiquity. The message of Christ and the word of God form a consistent revelation. Jesus's message, God's Word, is living and active. And Paul urges us to let that Word live with us, among us (the word you is plural) richly, abundantly, generously.

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