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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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What's in the Bowl?

During a spring trip, my wife and I purchased a glass bowl. It's colorful and handmade. When I turn the bowl upside down, nothing falls out. Does that make it empty?

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Knowing Knowing

About & More

Eternal life is knowing God. What is it to know God? Is it enough to know about him? Think of people you know about: sports figures, performers, business leaders, politicians, people in gossip columns or the rumor mill. Now bring to mind people you know about AND know. How would you describe the difference? What is the 'more' in knowing?

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Sillage

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. ⏤ 2 Cor. 2:14 NIV

The aroma (or fragrance) of the knowledge of God. When we discover that the knowledge of God = eternal life, we see he wants us to spread the fragrance of that eternal life everywhere we go. What do we 'smell like' to the world?

Sillage (UK: /siːˈjɑːʒ/, French: [sijaʒ]) in perfume refers to the trail created by a perfume when it is worn on the skin. It comes from the word in French for "wake" and can best be described as how a fragrance diffuses "in a person's wake," or, behind the wearer as they move.

Wikipedia contributors. "Sillage (perfume)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 7 Dec. 2024. Web. 6 May. 2025

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The Most Famous Verse

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ⏤ John 3:16 NIV

Whoever believes in (has faith in, trusts) God's Son shall have eternal life. They shall know God.

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