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Devotional,OTJ

Day 5 – What fruit do you have in abundance?05 Jan

In Genesis 9, we see this restatement of the command given to Adam and Eve, “Be Fruitful and multiply!”. It is so hopeful, so exciting. We have wrestled with the flood, the punishment of and cleansing from sin by a loving, and holy God. And now the earth is new, and filled with a new [...]
Devotional,OTJ

Day 4 – Judgment and Prayer04 Jan

As a Christian, it seems that Genesis has taken a turn for the worse. So far in Genesis we’ve already seen some of the destruction brought to humanity because of Sin (which as Gen 4.7 points out “sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”) We’ve [...]

Sacred Desert

Meeting the Lord in Dry Places:

None of us really want the Dry Spells of life. We become tired, and thirsty for something that satisfies, we are uncomfortable, we are unsure of the future. The dry places of our lives feel the most distant from the Lord. We think that the dryness is an expression of God’s removal of blessing, the absence of his presence, when in reality, it is the desert places that allow us raw and concentrated time with Him. Allow this series to challenge your thinking of that a time of blessing from the Lord looks like.

“There is in true grace an infinite circle:
a man by thirsting receives,
and receiving thirsts for more.”
- Thomas Shepard

Victorious Life

Too often Christians talk about just scraping by, lacking joy in the Lord, being defeated by temptation. When we read Deuteronomy, Joshua, Acts and Romans, we get a very different picture…celebration of victory and the gift of God’s strength to conquer evil. Over the weeks following Easter, we will find out what it means to live in the victory won  by Jesus in his resurrection.

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