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Devotional,OTJ

Day 77-Humility in Leadership18 Mar

I read a book a little while back called, “why Smart People do Dumb things” by Mortimer Feinberg. The basic premise is that many very intelligent people, who are gifted with business sense, or political acumen, also possess a fatal flaw to which they are blind. Their wold comes crashing down when they do something [...]
Devotional,NJ

Day 20 – Pharisees20 Jan

Again, Jesus lays into the pharisees, and it is easy to begin to set these guys up as shallow, self-serving ungodly people. But what we know of the Pharisees gives us a different perspective.  There were five major sects of Judaism (denominations of sorts), of which the Pharisees were the most committed to the whole [...]

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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