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It would be just like him

The God of the Bible looks like Jesus, the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being. It would be just like him to go to the cross.

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Practicing Our Scales

Imagine if our walk with Christ, representing his kingdom in the world, were as practiced and pure as Hania Rani’s fingers on the piano keys.

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Rescue

I practice the spiritual discipline of rescuing earthworms on paved surfaces. It's a reminder to me that I can pause what I'm doing, get a little dirty, and help. Also, that I've been given the responsibility to care.

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Your Roots Are Showing

The life that I bring to the world can only be found in my attachment to Christ. His presence with me is essential.

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Connection

I live in a U.S. county with traffic problems. It's a peninsula, and what's not swamp land has been developed. Building new roads is difficult and expensive. Making things worse, roads that could connect don't.

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Kingdom Kingdom

Faster. Sooner.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — Attributed to Theodore Parker

Well, it's a very long arc, isn't it? God is good, and everything he created was good and very good. But like the jet stream, every kink in this 'arc' causes storms to fire. Right now, God is about the work of rectification, and so should we be. But the Father doesn't intend for us to bump along, groping for justice clues. He gave the Law, then Jesus and his Royal Law, to show us the way. For love's sake, we can get there faster and sooner.

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Reasons

People say they have reasons not to follow Jesus: bad churches, hypocrisy, science, etc. Reason implies logic, and logic is the wrong starting point for Big Questions. From inside God's kingdom, nothing seems more unreasonable than to claim that the way of manipulation and might is better than the way of love and freedom. Frameworks of reason and logic follow a decision to trust. Who is worthy of my trust?

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Ground Cloud

And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. ⏤ Heb. 12:1b-2

The fog of suffering and injustice is disconcerting. It's confusing and disorienting. We hear sounds we can't place: accusation, condemnation, ridicule, disaffiliation, dehumanization. But Evil is a ground cloud. God invites us to lift our eyes, look up, and set our focus on Jesus in whom we've placed our trust.

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