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To Seek part 1

02/25/2016 11:57

The more I think about things in the upside-down view of the Kingdom--you know, lose your life to save it, first will be last and last first, and all that--the more I realize how backwards we have it. Like, we think WE need to do stuff. When, in truth, Jesus did it all. ALL. He finished the work....

DNA part 5

02/24/2016 11:00

Who am I? It's one of the most important questions we can ask (along with, "Where am I?" and "Why am I here?" which is why I wrote the Answer Trilogy). Because if we don't know who we are, we're always going to try to act like somebody else. There's a line in a song that says, "You've got to stand...

DNA part 4

02/23/2016 14:57

It's what's inside that makes you who you are. Not the external stuff, but the internal stuff. Jesus said it--in an admittedly negative seeming connotation--like this, "What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the...

DNA part 3

02/22/2016 11:21

It's impossible to BE the real you unless you KNOW the real you. Until that happens, you will forever try (and fail) to be someone you're not. And that's pretty tragic. Heartbreaking. Because you were fearfully and wonderfully made. Made in the image of God, in fact. Which is why trying to act like...

DNA part 2

02/21/2016 12:45

There's old and there's new. (Even though, really, "new" is just a return to the original.) The Old Covenant and the New Covenant. The blood that is the life of the flesh, and the blood of the Lamb that is eternal life. Jesus said it like this, "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is...

DNA part 1

02/20/2016 14:43

I think it's so important that we stop focusing on what we DO and start focusing on who we ARE. Because what we do FLOWS from who we are. You can't address the issue through behavior modification. That was the Law's big flaw--it was external and couldn't bring about real, internal, lasting change....

Bridges part 5

02/19/2016 15:03

Love is the creative force of the universe. You can't make something out of nothing. So when God--who, remember IS love--made the heaven and the earth, He was simply creating an extension of Himself. And I know that it seems like love is hard to find, but that's because it's underneath the surface....

Bridges part 4

02/18/2016 11:42

Love is what connects us. Love is the ONLY thing that CAN connect us in a true, pure, holy way. And in a world where it seems so easy to destroy things, to build walls, and condemn others... love is the only thing that builds relationships. Love is the foundation we build on, and love is the bridge...

Bridges part 3

02/17/2016 11:12

Bridges connect us by making a way over the gaps. Love binds and holds us together. It seems like "human nature" to either build walls--to keep things in or out--or to destroy everything in sight. Burn it all to the ground. Scorched earth. What we don't seem to understand is that GOD is the...

Bridges part 2

02/16/2016 14:49

I don't know why this is, but is seems like it's so much easier to break things than it is to build them. And I think maybe it's because there are so MANY ways to break things, but really only one way to build them. Remember yesterday we were looking at the negative things that we use to try to...

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