"We fail to remember that God is as the Psalmist describes: an abundant fountain, a river of delights, a full house, a radiant light. The Psalmist knows God never operates out of scarcity. Where we must begin with Deeper is recognizing the ever flowing depths of the fountain of God. He is living water, because it is always abundant and always flowing. Scarcity mindset keeps us from going deeper, because we are afraid the safety net either isn’t there or doesn’t go deep enough. We won’t risk, because we can’t. We can’t possibly risk such things. There might not be anything left. There might not be any left for me. We are all like Goldilocks lamenting lost porridge, broken chairs, and occupied beds. But God always has room and always makes room. He is an overflowing fountain."
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Abiding through the fall at City Pres meant holding on for dear life to your life preserver ring hoping the other side of the rope is attached to the rescue boat, continually clinging, continually waiting. But abiding in the new year at City Pres is what I think we’re being called into: “Deeper.”
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2016
There is not any other distinction or any other belief system that can make us one, but the spirit of God that we share makes us one. So we hold on to our distinctions, and we regard each other as children of God, made in his image, and we listen empathically (as even Rogers identified as crucial for relationships!) from a position of peace and gentleness, full of mercy, impartial and sincere.
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2016
Leave it to sinful man to conflate their good, God-given capability for developing technology and for building wonderful things with their own ego-driven self-aggrandizement.
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2016
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2016
Michael Kelshaw's sermon on "Singleness Reimagined" had me thinking about several conversations I've had that I would love to revisit with the Good News he shared.
Nov 9
2016
Thinking through some of the implications for single believers who are thinking seriously about staying single for life.
Nov 4
2016
What in my day-to-day life is directing me to wisdom? To God? I came to a disheartening realization…nothing.
Nov 3
2016
Faithfully reading the Bible means that we don't wait for the text to amaze us. We have to sit with it, attend to it.