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?
Continue reading “Where Do You Live?”
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.
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”
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. 😊
Continue reading “The Morel of the Story”
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?
Continue reading “More than More”
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.
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?
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.
Continue reading “The Long End of the Stick”
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?]
Continue reading “Together, Together”
What is it about this life that it always tends toward being so tiring and under such subjection to forces inside of us and outside of us? Constant disruption, distress, disappointments, demands, and domination permeate the fabric of living this life with the ultimate end of it all resulting in the very most demoralizing D-word: death.
Continue reading “Yoked to Freedom Or Yoked to Despair?”
