Posts Tagged ‘christianity’
the highest blessing
Father in Heaven,
I desire a heart for your work. I long, even now, to perform that which you have set aside for me to do during this all too short life.
Please guide my feet to the place you have chosen for me. I desire your blessing, Father – not that which I could take for [...]
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there is none else
Isaiah 46:9
I have been afforded a morning of retreat. Well, all of us have – it is our morning for contemplation. This passage came to me while I was walking the Salmon Trail here on campus. It is a good place to return to – the beginning and end. In the next verse Isaiah hears [...]
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becoming nothing
Phil. 2: 5-11
We may never know the pain and embarrassment that Jesus endured for us during his ministry on earth – we just receive the blessing.
Think about this in a linguistic sense for a moment. When you enter a language group without any ability to speak the language, you essentially become an infant in what [...]
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Tags: christianity, culture, language, religion, wycliffe
vision 2025
There are lots of stories from my history that I can relate about how I have been drawn to languages. Stories of hearing a new language spoken around me and wondering what they people are talking about. Once I had learned to read and write I was always wondering how the words came to mean [...]
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Tags: christianit, christianity, missional, translation, wycliffe
heart-feeling and devotion
Two things that are in front of me today. One is a passage I read today, the other a blog post that I read.
Psalms 42:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.
For [...]
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Tags: christianity, desiring god, devotions, faith, john piper, meditation, reading
no, i am not
Do not judge me on your preconceived notions. Do not apply the mistakes of others to me and account me guilty.
I am not of Paul, or Apollos, or Mike, or John or anyone else. I am of Christ. I am His. I have to find my own way, make my own mistakes and learn from [...]
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Tags: belief, bible, christian life, christianity, Jesus, jesus christ, john piper, michael pearl, no greater joy, reading, religion, scripture
christmas praise
Luke 2:8-13
I have never wondered why the angels sang for the shepherds on the night of Christ’s birth. They were singing because God Incarnate had arrived on earth. The events were set in motion, it was finally happening – the Immortal God was going to submit to physical limitation and death to provide redemption to [...]
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Have you read the words of Micah lately? Most people are familiar with the passage(6:8), as an instruction on the way to live life, but have you read the preceding verses? Or just picked out the words as a nice homily to mouth when you are doubtful?
I think this piece of scripture was intended for [...]
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the final word on anxiety
While I considered the passage yesterday from Matthew chapter six, I found the promise given in Isaiah 41:10. It makes a nice verse to memorize, and I would challenge you to do so!
Isaiah 41:10 KJV
Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
Be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee;
Yea, I will help [...]
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Remember, when faced with deciding your future – anxiety is not what God had in mind. Christ told us that in Matthew chapter six. (Matthew 6:25-34 KJV)
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put [...]
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Places I Wander
