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August 25, 2020August 25, 2020

Shining Elephant

There’s an old story that you’ve probably heard about an elephant that comes into a village of blind people and the villagers come out to find out more about what this thing is. Various ones start to feel about the animal and start to describe what it is like based on the part they touch- the tail, a leg, a tusk, the trunk etc.- definitively concluding that’s what the elephant is, based on what they have experienced.

What many people conclude about Jesus is done much the same way as this. Whatever they have or haven’t heard or read about him becomes their reality. Further, depending on who they want Him to be to serve their own agendas or feelings is what “Jesus” becomes to them.

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020

Where Do You Live?

One of the things that Jesus is always doing is to show people where true life occurs and how to live there. In the discussion of His leadership versus the adversary’s in John 10, He tells us that He came to give us true life without limits. His inviting and enabling to live that life is what He is doing even now so let’s explore what that looks like and to see if that’s where we live?

July 6, 2019August 17, 2020

Learning From Jesus How To Experience His 7 Freedoms For Living In Lasting Abundance!

What is it about life that when you are feeling good, that feeling doesn’t seem to last very long, but when you’re feeling bad, that feeling lingers on and on and on? It just isn’t fair, even when you think you’re getting ahead, there always seems to be something lacking. You’ve been created to live in real abundance but, like a dog on a chain, you always feel like the good life always beyond your reach.

Try as you might to get, and to hold onto, the good moments- nice achievements, happy circumstances, milestones, great advances- there seems to be little time to celebrate them before you are onto having to figure out “what’s next?”. At the same time, you constantly battle belittling voices inside and outside of yourself that produce an all too familiar feeling of hopelessness and enslavement.

May 27, 2019August 17, 2020

Safety In One

What things haunt you from your past, trouble you in the present, or give you great anxiety regarding the future?

One of the great needs of human beings is to feel safe and secure. This is not only with regard to our physical and material well-being, but also with regard to the inner drives that dog us, such as threats to our sense of worth and importance. So is there really any lasting safety and security found anywhere in this world where everything is never-lasting?

Really Great News Alert: there is such safety available in staying connected with the One Who exists outside of time and space! Continue reading “Safety In One”

May 13, 2019August 17, 2020

The Morel of the Story

Well, you might ask, what do Morel mushrooms have to do with “what is Jesus doing”? Read on and I will attempt to hopefully make some sense of it. 😊

May 6, 2019May 22, 2019

More than More

These days, as in all days, there is the encouragement to want more. More money, more satisfaction, more status, more love, more choices, more power, more achievement, more recognition and fame, more security, more, more, more. We are driven to want more but, for all the attention and effort given to this pursuit, what is it really delivering?

February 15, 2019February 19, 2019

Never-Lasting, Sever-Lasting or Everlasting?

Imagine with me, living a life where you lived in such peace that no matter what happened, you knew that everything would be OK? It would be like if you were a small child in a safe and warm home where loving parents constantly provided for you and valued everything about you. You didn’t have to “prove anything” or be something you weren’t- you were free to be yourself and you could play and create to your heart’s content. There were certain “realities” that would introduce messiness and limitations, even evil. But the “reality” of absolutely knowing you were loved for who you were, and that you always enjoyed the full attention of Mom and Dad, transcended them completely.

What would that kind of living feel like to you?
What would the quality of your life be like if your reality was like that described above?
Who could you be, together with others, if you operated in that abundance?

February 3, 2019February 14, 2019

Tired of Stumbling Through Life, Start Walking With Jesus

Have you ever asked, isn’t there something more to the Christian life than I’ve experienced to this point?

Or maybe you’re someone who hasn’t ever made a profession of belief in Jesus and you’ve asked, Jesus seems to be cool but what is up with Christianity as a religion?

I’m not sure what your experience has been but I can tell you that in mine I have asked both of these questions and others that are related to them in my frustration. So, let me tell you about answers that I’ve found that have taken me from frustration to freedom.
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December 25, 2018January 2, 2019

The Long End of the Stick

Recently I spent time with a person who kept referring to getting “the short end of the stick”. Everything from, how the company he worked for had treated him, to the ways things had gone for him in the past, to his present “lot in life” had seemingly conspired against his happiness. This was a man who actually had incredibly good things throughout his life but the weight of the losses he had experienced were perceived to tip the scales of life to downtrodden victimhood.

September 16, 2018December 31, 2018

Together, Together

Previously, we have been examining how God in Jesus has come to be with us and to invite us to actively participate together with Him in all of the aspects of life, a life that is filled with true abundance.

Here though, we want to explore the next level of experiencing abundant life with Him. [Before reading further, pause to think, what do you think that next level would have to include for even a greater experience of experiencing of Jesus?]