gospel
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tell them what it’s like
Your whole person was formed to be someone specific—a faithful follower, a committed Christian, on fire for God. You look at all the words, models, and messages now; they appear so vastly different from here, on the outside, than from there, on the inside. There was the message but only one way to live it, Continue reading
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this is what it’s like
How would I describe it? It’s like losing your way in a familiar place. The spaces that once brought you comfort are now sources of discomfort. Who you once were is now a stranger. The God who once felt so near is now distant. Your faith is far away. Your love is weak. You do Continue reading
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I’m like you
I’m like you. If you’ve never had a vision. You don’t speak in tongues. When others around you seem to have an encounter with God, you have none. You’ve sat in a crowd of believers wondering, “Why not me? What’s wrong with me?” You’ve wondered what you’re missing, what you don’t have that others do. Continue reading
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:static:
Sometimes I feel left in the dark. As if I have questions even God can’t answer. Or chooses not to. Why are we left alone when we are most in doubt? Sometimes silence is just what we need, even when we want anything but static. I no longer know what to ask. So silence is Continue reading
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you can’t give God everything
Intellectually and theologically I can’t state exactly what I “believe”. But I can feel and sense what I believe. I don’t think my way through life as much as feel my way through it. Is this wrong? Does this come back to “the heart is deceitful above all else”? Yet it says to love the Continue reading
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For perhaps the first time in my life I’m starting to feel my age, reaching the limits of my body. Stray gray hairs appear in my beard, like dying trees in a forest. Wrinkles under the eyes. I’m not young anymore. Nor am I old. Entering that middle stretch of life (God-willing). I realize how Continue reading
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everyone is invited
And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers…” And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. We are told to Continue reading
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the gospel according to Jayber Crow
Now, finally, I really had lost all desire for change, every last twinge of the notion that I ought to get somewhere or make something of myself. I was what I was. “I will stand like a tree,” I thought, “and be in myself as I am.” – Jayber Crow Who told you that you Continue reading
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Week 13: the table (part 2)
My heart is always filled with awe and wonder on nights such as these. I only invite others—not to my table with anything I can provide—to his table, the one with the remedy for the maladies of our hearts. He who is himself the remedy. My only hope is to create a space where he Continue reading
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Week 12: the table (part 1)
“I will come back every f*cking week for the rest of my f*cking life whenever I’m in this town,” he said as he wiped tears from his face. The very best compliment I could have ever received. My new friend “T” started shedding tears as I ended the night in prayer. I had shared the Continue reading
a kingdom built of seeds 