New Creation

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You Gotta Want It! May 18, 2021 There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus noticed him lying there , knowing that he had been in that condition a long time (38 years), He said to…
Do We Really Want New Life? May 16, 2021 There was a certain man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus noticed him lying there , knowing that he had been in that condition a long time (38 years), He said to…
Moonrise: The End of Our Dominion Jul 20, 2020 I am a bow on Your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break. ~Nikos Kazantzakis Listen to me, O…
Kingdom Mysterion Jan 2, 2019 When are we living in Christ? When we live according to His Gospel and His Church. For He Himself, and not only His Gospel, is in the Church with all of His perfections and virtues. The…
Moving The Fulcrum of Our Minds May 17, 2018 The Kingdom of God is initially a foreign country to us. We are not residents of the world, but citizens of Heaven, learning what that means. Our first experience in life is with the language and…
Level 12 Exercise: Fully Mature Son Mar 14, 2018 It is morally impossible to exercise trust in God while there is failure to wait upon Him for guidance and direction. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts…
A Love Grown Large to Heal The Evil Within Oct 25, 2017 I think one may be quite rid of the old haunting suspicion—which raises its head in every temptation—that there is something else than God—some other country . . . into which He forbids us to trespass—some…
The Violent Obedience of Freedom Aug 4, 2017 The purpose of the cross is to completely decimate your loyalty to the most seductive/powerful of all idols—the idol of self. ~David Tripp But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of…
Leading from The Cheap Seats May 3, 2017 A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of…
Relentless Reminders of The New Creation Dec 20, 2016 The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creation. Not to make people with…
The Failed Power of Reason Sep 20, 2016 Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.~Martin Luther, 1483-1546 There shall come forth a Shoot from the stump of Jesse, and…
Nothing But Christ And Him Crucified Sep 19, 2016 It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.~ CS Lewis And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to…
Still, Like Water Sep 4, 2016 It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.~ Terence James Stannus Gray I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you…
Taking Every Thought Captive: Freedom from Lies Jul 20, 2016 The devil wrestles with God, and the field of battle is the human heart.~Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevski (1821-1881) For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons…
Resting, Loving And Living: The Simplicity of The Gospel Jun 3, 2016 The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of…
Married to Another – Forever Feb 6, 2016 To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son-…
He Smashes Into Our Lives Sep 29, 2015 Late have I loved You, O Beauty so ancient and new; Late Have I loved You. Lo, you were within, but I outside, seeking there for you, and upon the shapely things you have made I…
ὑπερπλεονάζω (hyperpleonazō): The Exceedingly Abundantly Normal State of Grace Jun 30, 2015 There is within the limitless confines of the Trinity, a Love so real as to shatter any conception we have ever had of the word. The Love of G_d, is the very substance of who He…
Resting in Our New Past in Him Jun 22, 2015 There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) We ourselves…
Ignorance Is Not Bliss Oct 9, 2014 However, when we are employed in obtaining an assurance of His love, we are still to an extent busy with self. Our defects, regarded in peace and in the spirit of love, are instantly consumed by…
Infinite Power in A Jar of Clay May 26, 2013 We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, see-able, with the mind, the hands, the ears, and eyes of the inner man.~A.W. Tozer (1897-1963)For this reason I bow my knees before the…