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Shining Elephant

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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.

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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”

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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?

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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?
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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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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.

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