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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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Sneeze

Some, like Alan Hirsch, have compared disciple-making to a sneeze. When the explosive message that Jesus is Lord reaches the right host, Kingdom life can take hold and maybe spread virally. It helps when people's resistance is low and they haven't been inoculated with a false gospel.

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Knowing Knowing

Qualitatively Speaking

In our culture, we prioritize quantitative over qualitative. We like things to be measurable, definitive, binary. This is what we do with eternal life. Heaven or hell. Starting at the point of physical death and reaching forward. But, Biblically, eternal life is eternal in both directions. It's a river of life with the Triune God that has always been, and always will be, love. It's knowing God. We're invited into that life now. It's an eternal kind of life. A quality of life that just happens to have an immeasurable quantity.

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AI

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. — Prov. 9:10

AI is the buzz right now. Like most technologies, it will be used for good and for harm. But will it replace humans? In one sense, yes. I am confident AI will replace humans in some jobs. But in another sense, no. Wisdom must be valued above intelligence, and there is no such thing as artificial wisdom. Will machines humble themselves (understand, stand under) before the Lord? Will machines come to know the Holy One and experience eternal life?

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