Category: Spiritual hunger

  • Dan

    All that matters

    Notes from Philippians 3 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him,…

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    We need the true prophetic voice again

    “The prophets purge our imaginations of this world’s assumptions on how life is lived and what counts in life. Over and over again, God the Holy Spirit uses the prophets to separate his people from the cultures in which they live and to put them back on the path of simple faith and obedience and worship in defiance of all…

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    We can’t glorify the cross

    For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Cor. 1:18, NIV)

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    I long for the Word Incarnate

    “Too often the living Word made flesh is desiccated into propositional corpses and then sorted into exegetical specimens in bottles of formaldehyde. We end up with god-talk. T.S. Eliot put it like this: Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word…Where is the Life we have lost in living?— Eugene Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch…

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    The challenge of hearing God

    His voice is love. His voice is power.

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    Words that are capturing my heart

    But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness…

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    By faith

    Coming through Hebrews 11 and as we turn into the main point of Hebrews 12, I can hear the author of Hebrews fairly shouting: “Quit being so lazy in your faith!”

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    The uncomfortable places

    It is in the “uncomfortable” places I’ve become more secure in Christ.

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    The knowing beyond the knowable

    We need the boldness to climb the mountain we can’t conquer.

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    We don’t grasp who we really are

    Let the power of the Spirit flow through the Church once again and let the Church arise and BE the powerful representation of Christ once again in this world!