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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World /  JM

iii /  Gen. 2  v. 1 - 3       Matt. 11: 28 - 30
Life-giving communion with the Lifegiver

• Tabernacle & Temple: expressions of Eden recalled
 Lampstand: Tree of Life / Cherubim: guarding Eden

• Ps 132: ‘resting-place’;
 dwelling-place, used interchangeably

• 1 K. 8: 56  Solomon ( Read more... )

God’s salvation plan
Jesus’ prediction
Peter denies the Cross
- trying to correct what God’s salvation looks like

All sin is based on us trying to improve
  or correct what God has set in place

Peter’s understanding of Jesus as Messiah - named as the Rock but
does not have requisite knowledge of what that actually means / entails

Jesus’ duality ( Read more... )

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the NEXT RIGHT THING:
Emily P. Freeman

5. Look for Arrows

Logic & limits often get in the way of longing. And longing is key to our growth.
... This awakening didn't come like a glorious sunrise or a blooming flower. Instead, it arrived more like a summer storm: dark clouds, thick air, rolling thunder. Here is where we learned that desire often ( Read more... )

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2 Cor 2: 14 (NIV)

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession & uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
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- how are these images encouraging?
- how are they challenging?
   [ ego. / vainglorious. ]
- are there any potential dangers
for viewing evangelism in this way?

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Isaiah 66

"... they will come and see my glory."

◘  Written 600 BC
◘  Far-away lands:
Turkey / northwest Mediterranean / Greece

* a tough, challenging passage to read.

1. "those who survive the sign"
- The sign?  ...  Immanuel

2.  "and they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain as an offering"
* complicated ( Read more... )

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Link: Even This: Trusting God in Your Darkest Day

- What it means to trust in God ~ Proverbs 3.5-6

- Why this is difficult in times of darkness/suffering:
control, fear of an outcome we don't want, blind panic

Prov 16:9
In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps <<1040>>

- God asks us to trust Him because he is ( Read more... )

.'faith in action' -- Rev. Steve Benson ( Read more... )

Blessed (SJ)

◘ From the Psalms,
Flourishing, like the tree in Psalm 1
    ‘you're in the right place spiritually’

◘  Also, however counter-intuitive:
Jesus knows our instincts for self-preservation
(metaphor: skiiing -  lean back into the mountain to protect to oneself)

◘  Poor in spiritNothing in the bank spiritually to show before God ( Read more... )

Notes, paraphrases & reflections from a talk given by Richard Coekin

John Bunyan: ' Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to His Word, for the good of the church, with
submission in ( Read more... )