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Whose Voice Are You Listening To?

That's exactly where Genesis 2 starts. God takes the adama, the ground, and forms Adam, a human being. Dirt and dust, shaped into a body. And then God does something extraordinary. He breathes into it. The dirt clod becomes alive – a human being.

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A Personal Note from Steve

Have I told you lately that I appreciate you? I do. I'll make this quick today. I need to crank up my earnings from my Do Everything In Love writing to $7,500/year or more. I'm about a third of the way there. The money

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Created for Sabbath

You were created for the good things of God. And Sabbath is one of those very good things. Not something you earn. Not something you have to do perfectly. Just something God offers you because He loves you.

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Created for Relationship

God separates first. Then God fills. And in between? God has always set aside sacred time — worship, prayer, Sabbath, community — not as obligations to check off, but as invitations to come close.

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Mercy Wins

Jesus didn't just show mercy — he made it a defining mark of his people. He was describing people shaped from the inside out by the mercy they had already received.

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God Speaks Into the Mess

God didn't wait for the world to clean itself up before he showed up. Jesus was placed in a feeding trough — a food trough — at birth. Not exactly where you'd expect to find a king, let alone the God who made everything. But that's the kind of God we serve.

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What Does It Mean That God Is Love?

In a world filled with endless distractions and competing desires, understanding what it truly means that "God is love" can feel overwhelming. Yet this fundamental truth about God's character offers us the most profound hope and direction for our lives.

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Looking to the Manger

As we go about our days, let us return frequently to the manger, remembering that God is still with us today, waiting to be born and reborn in our lives anew.

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Love Comes in the Waiting: An Advent Reflection on Love

An Advent devotional filled with love.

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Joyfully Prophetic

Can we find joy not despite our waiting but through it? The text suggests that authentic spiritual joy might be found precisely in those moments when we engage with the tension between present reality and future hope, between what is and what will be.

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Living with Holy Imagination: Preparing for Christ's Return

Mary's song paints a beautiful picture of a God whose deep love actively heals and restores our broken world, serving as a living invitation to join in this ongoing work of transformation.

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A Light That Waits

An Advent devotional filled with hope.

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Rediscovering Advent's Gift of Hope

In our rushed culture that demands constant productivity and acquisition, Advent calls us to be still, to create space for what matters most.

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Sent by God

Your mission field is wherever God has placed you today. Your calling is real, your purpose is significant, and your God is ready to work through you in ways that will amaze you.

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What Do Your Words Say?

So let's be people whose word means something. Let's be people who don't need elaborate oaths or religious language to back up what we say. Let's be people whose yes is yes and whose no is no.

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Sowing Seeds of Faith

The power for transformation isn't in us as the sower or in the soil itself - it's in the seed, the gospel message of hope in Jesus Christ.

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Great Sunday Attendance Doesn't Mean Your Church is Spiritually Healthy

When both elements are present and thriving, you get a community that doesn't just count members—it transforms lives.

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Why Your Anger Might Be More Dangerous Than You Think

The question isn't whether we'll face conflict and anger. We will. The question is: Will we let those challenges drive us toward greater Christlikeness and deeper community? Or will we let them harden our hearts and divide us from others?

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Are We Missing the Point? (Part Two)

Maybe it's time to remember that church isn't supposed to be a place where perfect people gather to maintain their perfection. It's supposed to be a place where broken people come together to experience the healing, hope, and hospitality of Jesus.

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Are We Missing the Point?

True hospitality isn't about having the right programs or saying the right words. It's about creating space where people can belong before they believe, where questions are welcomed rather than feared, and where someone's story matters more than their ability to recite the right theological answers.

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Filled Full

The religious establishment interpreted Jesus's actions as an attack on everything they held sacred. Yet Jesus was not the rebellious child dismantling tradition—He was about to open them up into all their fullness.

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Reviving the Church

The path forward requires a fundamental shift in perspective. Churches must move beyond merely "doing" church activities to authentically "being" the church. This distinction is more than semantic—it represents a complete reorientation of priorities and practices.

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Salt, Light, and the Art of Transformative Living

In a world increasingly polarized between withdrawal and accommodation, Jesus offers his followers a third way—one that transforms rather than retreats, influences rather than isolates.

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Ask, Seek, Knock

The more we experience God's generosity, the more generous we become. The more we receive His love, the more love we have to give. The more we understand His heart for us, the more our hearts expand for others.

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From Doubt to Faith

Breaking Through Our Impossible Barriers On May 6, 1954, something remarkable happened that would forever change how we think about human limitations. Roger Bannister stood at the starting line of the Iffley Road track in Oxford, England, preparing to attempt what many considered impossible: running a mile in under four