Tag: Wisdom
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Acting Out Our Faith: Speaking About Jesus
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name…
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Resolutions: One Whose Eye Sees Clearly
A repost from last year. May God bless you and yours this coming year. Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as at other times, but turned his face toward the desert. When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe,…
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The Shepherd and the Sheep: Stray Sheep
I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands. – Psalms 119:176 (NIV) I have been lost before; lost in such a way that I had no hope of finding my way to safety on my own. Only the effort of someone else seeking me out and…
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The Discipline of Presence: Praise, Prayer and Grateful Living
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NRSV) Paul presents in this passage the hat trick of living in the present. A trinity of disciplines that seem almost impossible, but “nothing is impossible with God.” Paul…
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The Discipline of Presence: History Lessons
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us…
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Reconciliation: Christ Our Redeemer
For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. – Colossians 1:19-20 (NIV) Have you ever experienced a long separation from someone you loved? Do…
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In Loving Memory of Mike Gower
In Memory of Mike Gower I first met Mike back in 1991. He and Caroline had taken on the Resident Directorship for the men’s dorm at Simpson College and none of us knew then how much their presence would impact our lives. We knew him then only as Gower, the big voiced, gregarious general with…
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Provision: Everything We Need
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. – 2 Peter 1:3 (NIV) When I went through basic training, we did a number of marches and two bivouacs (a fancy term for camp-out), and every time…
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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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