Aftermath

There’s nothing like a natural disaster to inspire people to ask deep questions about the meaning of life, justice, and the existence of evil and hardship. ...
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February 24, 2022
"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."...
February 17, 2022 by Emily Spare
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.” ...
January 18, 2018 by Joanna Hinks | Tags: justice, sacrifice, hope, blog, Jesus, Mercy, God, Church, Church blog, Renewal, Evil, Creation, Genesis, Flood, Newness, New Creation, Attonement, albuquerque, Albuquerque Church
There’s nothing like a natural disaster to inspire people to ask deep questions about the meaning of life, justice, and the existence of evil and hardship. ...
Keep ReadingJanuary 4, 2018 by | Tags: albuquerque, faithfulness, faithful, hope, blog, Jesus, God, Church, Covenant, fear, Albuquerque Church, Church blog, Promise, Savior, Creation, Genesis, Flood, Rescue, Rescuer, Noah, Rainbow
The rainbow is not a promise that life will get better after experiencing a storm. The rainbow is the promise that God will send a rescue, that God will be our refuge....
Keep ReadingOctober 12, 2017 by Alyson Noell | Tags: World, Creator, Worldview, Perspective, Creation, Value, Intrinsic, Created, Creature, Image, Imago Dei
We look horizontally, rather than vertically, for our identity, forgetting that we are creatures made in the image of God - we try instead to fashion identities for ourselves based on other, lesser images. ...
Keep ReadingSeptember 28, 2017 | Tags: gospel, albuquerque, power, faith, goodness, Jesus, Context, Church, Albuquerque Church, Church blog, Perspective, Trusting, Speak, Creation, Genesis
It’s not that God was any less present to them or working any fewer miracles of deliverance and preservation among them over those years; it’s just that they stopped seeing Him. They stopped recognizing His faithfulness to them. And I do the same thing. ...
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