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What Does it Mean to Gather?Sermon: Coveting: The Enemy of GenerosityEstablishing A Rule of Life (Redux)Sermon: Advent of Love3 Questions for the New Year

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Daily Devotional #29: Do Not Be Wise In Your Own Eyes

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will…

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Daily Devotional #28: Faith and Works

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there’s no danger that we will confuse God’s work with our own, or God’s glory with our own.” ― Madeleine…

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Daily Devotional #27: Self-Doubt

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.” ― Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them…

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Daily Devotional #26: Where Are You Planted?

The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the …moment.” ― Eugene Peterson

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of…

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Daily Devotional #25: Deep and Beautiful

Righteous people fulfill God’s commands and work for the wholeness and justice of their community.” – Jessica Nicholas, God Loves Justice: A User-Friendly Guide to Biblical Justice and Righteousnes

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! – Amos 5:24

The image of a rolling river or a never failing-stream is powerful. It reminds me of something unstoppable.…

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Daily Devotional #24: Get Some Rest Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.” - Augustine of Hippo, …

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Daily Devotional #23: Prone To Wander I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

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Dailey Devotional #22: In spite of our foolishness and rebellious hearts, God has pursued us with relentless passion and patience, fully expressing to us His unfathomable love through the mercy and grace of the cross of His Son, Jesus Christ.- Louie Giglio, 

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I Was On A Podcast I was a guest on a podcast called attentiondeficittheology. My friend Lucas is the host. I talk about…

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Daily Devotional #21: Humility and The Kingdom As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.” ― C.S.

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Daily Devotional #20: Find Your Prayer Room Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 

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Daily Devotional #19: Love Well Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

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Daily Devotional #18: My Thoughts Matter

“The psalmist says “I have set the LORD always before me.” Paul says, “We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” They speak to the need for our souls to be completely and thoroughly with God. But as both of these verses suggest, it does not happen automatically. “Set” and “take captive” are active verbs, implying that you have a role in determining where your soul rests.” ― Joh…

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Daily Devotional #18: My Thought Life Matters

“The psalmist says “I have set the LORD always before me.” Paul says, “We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” They speak to the need for our souls to be completely and thoroughly with God. But as both of these verses suggest, it does not happen automatically. “Set” and “take captive” are active verbs, implying that you have a role in determining where your soul rests.” ― Joh…

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Daily Devotional # : Softening a Hardened Heart

The purpose of Lent is not to force on us a few formal obligations, but to ‘soften’ our heart so that it may open itself to the realities of the spirit, to experience the hidden ‘thirst and hunger’ for communion with God. – Alicia Britt Chole

I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. – Ezekiel…

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Daily Devotional #16: We Are Formed By What We Follow

As we follow him, we are also formed by him. – Dallas Willard

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. – John 8:12

Then Jesus told his disciples, If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. – Mathew 16:24

And by this we know that we have come to know…

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