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34. The 10-Stop Transformational Journey - Part 1 Podcast
In this two-part podcast, we explore the journey toward wholeness in Christ - toward the place of exhibiting a profound love of God and others. It's a process highlighted by embracing our own brokenness and discovering a different path. 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…
Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 03/08/2021
The Daily Memo | March 8, 2021 | God's Creative Order
Certainly storytelling is one of the great pleasures in the kingdom. God clearly takes it very seriously—he made reality in the shape of a story. Would you like to write? Illustrate? Act? Produce? Perhaps we get to take workshops from the great artists! These things are not obliterated when we step into the life to come; God renews all things. Willard assures us, We will not sit around looking at one another or at God for eternity but will join the eternal Logos, &ldquo…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, Return to the Garden | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 03/08/2021
The Daily Memo | March 5, 2021 | Living God's Way
No matter where you are in life, odds are you’re thinking about your future more than ever. Whether a student getting ready for graduation, a young manager plotting the next career move, or a parent seeking the best for your children, you’re making decisions today that will affect the rest of your life. And with each choice you make, you’re trying to create the best life possible for yourself and those you love. Throughout my life’s journey, there&rsquo…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 03/05/2021
The Daily Memo | March 4, 2021 | The True You
”What people think of me” is a very powerful motivator. It is still shaping us more than we’d like to admit. It shapes our theology, our politics, our values. Do any of us go through one entire day being utterly true no matter how many different environments we move through? Do you even know the true you? Is there a true you? Whether it is born of fear or longing or uncertainty or cunning or wickedness, it is so natural for us to shape ourselves according…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 03/04/2021
The Daily Memo | March 3, 2021 | Desperate Solutions
In the late sixteenth century, William of Orange intentionally flooded much of his nation’s land. The Dutch monarch resorted to such a drastic measure in an attempt to drive out the invading Spaniards. It didn’t work, and a vast swath of prime farmland was lost to the sea. “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” they say. In Isaiah’s day, Jerusalem turned to desperate measures when the Assyrian army threatened them. Creating a water…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 03/03/2021
The Daily Memo | March 2, 2021 | The Poser - An Excerpt from 90 Days on the Inside
I can still remember walking into the gym during a Freshman dance, where the college newbies met for an icebreaker the second day of the first semester. I had this cocky attitude trolling for the best-looking girl in the room. Me and a couple buddies of mine. Not that I knew what the plan was. But I sure knew I wanted to get noticed. It was kinda like John Travolta strolling onto the dance floor in his white suit ready to impress in Saturday Night Fever. I think Stayin&;…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, 90 Days on the Inside Book Excerpt | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 03/02/2021
The Daily Memo | March 1, 2021 | Love and Evil
Unfortunately, love is often defined in a shallow manner in today’s culture and seen as something that overlooks the need to confront sin. Discipline at all levels is often ignored because holding people accountable is surely not the loving thing to do. God, however, never overlooks sin and wickedness, and since He is love (1 John 4:7–8), it is clear that true love is never afraid to ignore the reality of evil or make it less than what it really is. In today&rsquo…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 03/01/2021
The Daily Memo | February 26, 2021 | What God Wants Us to Hear the Most
You aren’t the mistakes you’ve made. You aren’t the labels that have been put on you. And you aren’t the lies the Enemy has tried to sell you. You are who God says you are. You are a child of God. You are the apple of God’s eye. You are sought after. You are more than a conqueror. You are a new creation in Christ. You are the righteousness of Christ. All our identity issues are fundamental misunderstandings of who God is. Guilt issues are a…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Understanding Love, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/26/2021
The Daily Memo | February 25, 2021 | Man and Woman Becoming One
After creating this stunning portrait of a total union, the man and woman becoming one, God turns the universe on its head when he tells us that this is what he is seeking with us. In fact, Paul says it is why God created gender and sexuality and marriage—to serve as a living metaphor. He quotes Genesis, then takes it to the nth degree: "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Understanding Love, Return to the Garden | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/25/2021
The Daily Memo | February 24, 2021 | Waiting In Hope
In the movie Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, a college professor befriended a stray Akita puppy named Hachi. The dog expressed his loyalty by waiting at the train station each day for the professor to return from work. One day, the professor suffered a fatal stroke. Hachi waited hours at the train station, and for the next ten years he returned each day—awaiting His loving master. Luke tells the story of a man named Simeon who patiently waited for the coming of his Master …
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, Practicing His Presence | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/24/2021