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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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Give Us Barabbas!

They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising. — John 18:40

Jesus Barabbas and Jesus of Nazareth were both disrupters. One by force, the other by love.

Jewish leaders gave up on love. Was it too slow and inefficient? Too impractical? Too unsatisfying? Or was it as disruptive to them as it was to the Romans?

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Right-Sizing

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. — James 3:9-10

I really want this to be a self-control issue. It's not. It's a failure to see myself and others as God sees us. A proper view of others' God-likeness will right-size them greater in my eyes. My God-likeness should right-size me in the opposite direction.

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My Work Until

...I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest... ⏤ Jeremiah 31:33-34 and Hebrews 8:10-11

Eternal life is knowing God, dwelling with him as his people, our minds and hearts being trained by him in his ways. Until all know him, from least to greatest, my priority is teaching my neighbor, encouraging and being encouraged to know the Lord this way.

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