Thursday | Week 10
Jesus: Raising to Life, Preparing for Death
Have you ever been in a place so dark that you became disoriented once you came into the light?
When we were first married, we lived in Duncan, Oklahoma, a mid-sized rural town in the southwest part of the state with many stoplights but only one Wal-Mart. In February 2009, we were hit with a significant ice and snowstorm that shut our electricity down for fourteen straight days. We knew it was coming and were prepared with food, water, and a small generator.
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Thursday | Week 9
1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most beautiful chapters about love in the Bible. It tells us what love is. John 10 tells us who love is. Love is the Good Shepherd. Jesus says in John 10:14, “I am the Good Shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.”
Probably no sheep knows its shepherd better than a bummer lamb…
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Thursday | Week 8
Light and dark. Blindness and sight. These themes have come up before, and here they are again. Clearly, the topic of vision matters to Jesus. Clearly, there is something important about seeing correctly that Jesus wants us to understand.
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Thursday | Week 7
Do I matter?
Am I seen?
Two questions I spent a good bit of my adolescence trying to answer. I came from a great family, and I knew they loved me, but that wasn’t enough for some reason. I wanted to matter to people that weren’t required to love me. The way this played out for me was spending a lot of time on my looks, constantly wanting to be with my friends, and doing pretty much whatever it took to be popular.
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Thursday | Week 6
I thought I was good at submitting to God. I might have even prided myself on it. But then I had kids. As of this writing, I have two kids, who are seven and three years old. The authority in my house is well established with the parents. Still every decision, every word, and every bedtime is questioned! It’s as if each night they are surprised that we are once again going to march upstairs for our bedtime routine. The authority has been established and also must be reinforced multiple times every day.
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