Tag: humility
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Reconciliation: There Are No Untouchables
When he came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cured of his leprosy. …
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Reconciliation: God’s Gifts in Action
Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. – 1 Peter 4:10 We make much of gifted people in our culture; athletes, singers, actors and such. We celebrate their excellence and prize their attributes, hoping that they will not succumb to the poisonous…
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Reconciliation: It isn’t About Me
Philippians 2:3-4 (NIV) Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. We have been taught over the last few decades that the individual is important; that we each…
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Provision: God Gives No Unnecessary Thing
Then the LORD God provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the vine. But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered. When the sun rose, God…
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Provision: A Faith Like Abraham’s
Our church just finished a season of prayer on breakthrough, asking that God’s kingdom would break through into our lives in real and powerful ways. I was privileged to be a part of putting some of the devotions together and have used some of them in expanded form for the blog. I pray that they…
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Handling Brokenness Part 3: Plank-sightedness
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first…
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Handling Brokenness Part 1: The First Step is Admitting You Have a Problem
But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which…
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Handling Brokenness: Introduction
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. Romans 3:22-24 (NIV) I have never met a…
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Pressing On: Keeping Christ in Sight
Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends! – Philippians 4:1 (NIV) The sermon on Sunday was one of those gentle, but insistent nudges from God to redirect and refocus; an arm around the shoulders and a…
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Pressing On: Not Quite Like Jesus
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining…
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