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Living Dead in Prayer
My prayer life just lacks. The Lord has me camped out in Matthew 6 and I fully understand why. My prayer life is junk. I don’t follow any decent pattern of Kingdom prayer in my life. I walk with anxiety and not release. I struggle with his provision and lose sleep. The enemy begins to call the shots in my…
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Reading the Word
When we plunge into the Word of God, do we treat it as though we are the surgeon or scientist? Are we out to make the Word prove itself to us? Does our analytical approach make us “master” over the text? How about this: how about allowing the Bible surprise you with its familiar words? Instead of us scrutinizing the Scripture,…
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Three Martyrdoms — White
Dick Brodgen in The Live Dead Journal talks about three martyrdoms: red, green, and white. In the Green Martyrdom the Irish would build communities and invite people in. They would invite people to belong before the invitation to believe. Even though the Green Martyrdom is hard because it is giving up one’s will for another person, what did happen was communities…
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Three Martyrdoms — Red
Dick Brogden may not be a name you know. He doesn’t care. What he cares about is proclaiming Christ to the nations, especially the peoples who have yet to hear. I’ve been going through a journal he edited called The Live Dead Journal. Halfway through, Dick talks about three martyrdoms. The Red Martyrdom is giving your life for Christ physically.…
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Passing Along Passion
This article on missions is challenging. Am I sharing God’s passion for the lost? As we have wrapped up our missions emphasis this year at church I have been blessed by seeing the passion for missions raised in our Faith Promise giving for next year. It looks like another increase! I am so deeply grateful. But there is something more…
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The Call to Keep Climbing
This Live/Dead journal will be the end of me. And it should. There is enough of this “old me “. It is time to live NEW… in Christ. HE is all. HE is my great treasure.
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Living Without Excuse
Looking ahead to the texts for next week’s message, I find myself in Matthew 25. It looks like the remainder of November to Advent will be in Matthew 25. This passage comes at the end of a larger context beginning in Matthew 23. As I begin to read through all of this material, then focus in on Matthew 25, the…
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What Do You Expect?
I am working my way through a book/journal called The Live/Dead Journal. It is a compilation of reflections for 30 days from missionaries in some of the toughest places on the planet. Modern day apostles. The reflection I read today began with the tough passage from Luke 17:7-10 7 “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the…
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God’s DNA
9 Those born from God don’t practice sin because God’s DNA remains in them. They can’t sin because they are born from God. 10 This is how God’s children and the devil’s children are apparent: everyone who doesn’t practice righteousness is not from God, including the person who doesn’t love a brother or sister. 11 This is the message that you heard from the beginning: love…
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The Privilege of Living Dead
As I am challenging myself with John Wesley’s work on entire sanctification, I am meeting incredible people who live out the heart of Wesley’s message on a daily basis. They are people I can’t even name on a website because of the sensitive work they do. Their call is incredible. One organization challenging the Christian community with reaching the unreached…
Category: Spiritual hunger
