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Toward the Deep

Posted in Invitation, Jesus, Journey, Love, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The fishermen know the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangerous sufficient reason to remain ashore.
-Vincent van Gogh
It is a part of my make-up that I am compelled toward the deeper places, to delve into the inner-world of things.  I was that way even as a kid.  While [...]

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In-Tension

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Holiness, Jesus, Journey, Love, Scripture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The disciples did not understand any of this.
-Luke 18:34
The journey we’re on with Christ is one of great tension, of what can at times feel like a balancing act,  tug-of-war between two opposing forces and we are tight-roping the taut rope between, trying at times with all our might not to lose our balance.
But knocking [...]

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The God Who Speaks

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Invitation, Jesus, Journey, Longing, Love, Prayer, Remembering, Scripture, Story, tagged , , , , on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the ways that God has been speaking to her lately. She said that she used to hear people talk about “God told me this” or “God told me that” and she always wondered, “How do you know that God said that?” or “How [...]

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On Assignment

Posted in Calling, Conversational Intimacy, Discipleship, Jesus, Journey, Love, Restoration, tagged , , on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of the coolest things I’ve learned recently came from a group of friends who take seriously the call to follow Jesus in this world and into the heart of the arenas they work in, live in, and move about in. Whatever their profession, wherever they are living right now, whatever their family looks [...]

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Taking Up My Cross

Posted in Counsel, Healing, Love, Prayer, tagged , , on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What does it look like to love? It looks like Jesus. Period. He is Love, and as such is the perfect picture of it. And to model it, not only do I need grace in godly measure, I also must model Jesus in His life, even as He is in me — not only in [...]

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The Lover Known as God

Posted in Conversational Intimacy, Expression, Invitation, Jesus, Longing, Love, Wonder, tagged , on March 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Seeking God is such a curious thing. In a very real sense, I cannot seek God without His grace to find me first. Many of us are familiar with John’s refrain that we love Him only because He loved us first (1 John 4:19). But it’s this thing called love that’s got me in such [...]

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Riffraff

Posted in Grace, Healing, Home, Identity, Love, Scripture, Story, tagged , , on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Our church sponsors a home in Cambodia that brings in homeless children from the streets and provides for them shelter, education, Christian influence — a home life, essentially. It’s not an orphanage exactly, in that these children are not adopted out to families. This is their family. The “parents” are American missionaries. [...]

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