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The Daily Memo | April 14, 2021 | How God Reveals Himself
Many people today deny the existence of God. But the reason is suppression of the truth, not a lack of evidence. Because the Lord loves mankind, He has revealed Himself in several ways. We know God through ... His creation (Rom. 1:20). By observing the celestial bodies, the earth with its plants and creatures, and the laws of the universe, we must conclude that there is a Creator—such intricate design doesn’t happen accidentally. The order, balance, and beauty…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Practicing His Presence | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/14/2021
The Daily Memo | April 13, 2021 | Our 10-Stop Transformational Journey
Six years after beginning what he assumed would be a relatively typical research process that sought to better understand how God transforms people’s lives, researcher George Barna discovered that he had tackled a deeply challenging and amazingly revealing journey. The product of his effort was the ability to identify some of the developmental processes, experiences, and obstacles that are common across the lives of Americans of all backgrounds. He contends that while…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing, Practicing His Presence, Wounded Healer | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/13/2021
The Daily Memo | April 12, 2021 | When Human Strength Fails
It’s fine to pray for safety and blessings, but what if you want more? What if you desire power? In 1 Corinthians 10:13, Paul says that God provides us an escape route whenever we are tempted. But what happens when we refuse to take the help and instead implement our own ideas? Eventually, our human strength fails, and we give in to temptation. So it was with King David. He’d experienced the Lord’s rescue countless times, but he still allowed temptation to…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/12/2021
The Daily Memo | April 9, 2021 | Break Me
It’s fine to pray for safety and blessings, but what if you want more? What if you desire power from the Holy Spirit, strength from heaven, unshakable faith, genuine intimacy with your Father? Instead of just asking God to keep you safe, give you more, and protect your life, you may have to ask God to break you. When I think about praying this prayer, “Lord, break me,” I think about the experience Amy and I once had in our small group. On a blustery, cold…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing, Wounded Healer | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/09/2021
The Daily Memo | April 8, 2021 | Slum Songs
Cateura is a small slum in Paraguay, South America. Desperately poor, its villagers survive by recycling items from its rubbish dump. But from these unpromising conditions something beautiful has emerged—an orchestra. With a violin costing more than a house in Cateura, the orchestra had to get creative, crafting its own instruments from their garbage supply. Violins are made from oil cans with bent forks as tailpieces. Saxophones have come from drainpipes with bottle…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/08/2021
The Daily Memo | April 7, 2021 | Hemmed In
Why did God curse Eve with loneliness and heartache, an emptiness that nothing would be able to fill? Wasn’t her life going to be hard enough out there in the world, banished from the Garden that was her true home, her only home, never able to return? It seems unkind. Cruel, even. He did it to save her. For as we all know personally, something in Eve’s heart shifted at the Fall. Something sent its roots down deep into her soul—and ours—that mistrust…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Return to the Garden, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/07/2021
The Daily Memo | April 6, 2021 | Made to Be Like Him
The Lord makes known His love for mankind in so many ways. Consider, for example, His providential care and kindness to all humanity, our beautiful planet filled with creation’s wonders, and the gift of eternal life to all who trust Christ as Savior. But have you ever recognized that God also shows love by transforming believers into the image of His Son? Genesis 1:26 tells us that in the beginning, God created mankind in His likeness. Though that image was marred…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Identity Security | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/06/2021
36. Passion Week Podcast
The most significant event in human history took place roughly 2,000 years ago yesterday. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Savior. On this Podcast, Steve reviews the events leading up to this life-saving moment. Follow this link to Anchor Podcasts and select your favorite platform or just press play. Or listen on our YouTube Channel if you prefer.
Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/05/2021
The Daily Memo | April 5, 2021 | Until We Are Broken
True strength does not come out of bravado. Until we are broken, our life will be self-centered, self-reliant; our strength will be our own. So long as you think you are really something in and of yourself, what will you need God for? I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound. Think of the posers you know—are they the kind of man you would call at 2:00 A.M., when life is collapsing around?…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing, Wounded Healer | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/05/2021
The Daily Memo | April 2, 2021 | An Illusion of Control
We like to believe we’re in charge of our life, but when trouble inevitably comes our way, we’re reminded that’s not true. Yet even in times of difficulty we quickly try to regain control. In an attempt to put all the pieces back together, we may resort to manipulating circumstances or people, devising strategies, or using our own efforts to fix matters. Helplessness is one of the means God uses to break pride and produce humility. This was certainly true…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 04/02/2021