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33. Consequences of the Fall - The Brain and Our Wounds Podcast
Thousands of years ago Adam and Eve made a choice. Knowing what we know now we likely would have chosen differently. Unfortunately, there were consequences to the freedom allowing them to decide to sin against their Creator. That didn't work out so well. But there's so much for us to learn about God, our view of Him, our view of ourselves, and the patterns of behavior we've been experiencing ever since. Getting close to the wounds that drive us and our "isms;…
Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/23/2021
The Daily Memo | February 23, 2021 | The Loudest Voice In Your Life
Is it possible that what we perceive to be relational, emotional, and spiritual problems are actually hearing problems—ears that have been deafened to the voice of God? And it’s that inability to hear His voice that causes us to lose our voice and lose our way. Let me make a bold statement: Learning how to hear the voice of God is the solution to a thousand problems! It’s also the key to discovering our destiny and fulfilling our potential. His voice is.…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Practicing His Presence, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/23/2021
The Daily Memo | February 22, 2021 | Looking Up
The cockeyed squid lives in the ocean’s “twilight zone” where sunlight barely filters through the deep waters. The squid’s nickname is a reference to its two extremely different eyes: the left eye develops over time to become considerably larger than the right—almost twice as big. Scientists studying the mollusk have deduced that the squid uses its right eye, the smaller one, to look down into the darker depths. The larger, left eye, gazes,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, Practicing His Presence | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/22/2021
The Daily Memo | February 19, 2021 | What’s Your Reputation?
At local high school sporting events, Ted was the largest and loudest cheerleader in the stands. Before a degenerative condition took its toll on him, he stood six feet six inches tall and weighed 290 pounds. Ted’s crowd-stirring chants of “Blue!” (the school’s color) and candy-tossing at school events were legendary, earning him the name “Big Blue.” But Ted’s reputation in his community wasn’t just for cheerleading. Neither…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Wounded Healer, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/19/2021
The Daily Memo | February 18, 2021 | Hold Steady
Harriet Tubman was one of the great American heroes of the nineteenth century. Showing remarkable courage, she guided more than three hundred fellow slaves to freedom after she first escaped slavery by crossing into free territory in the United States North. Not content to simply enjoy her own freedom, she ventured back into slave states nineteen times to lead friends, family, and strangers to freedom, sometimes guiding people on foot all the way to Canada. What drove…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Safe People & Safe Community, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/18/2021
The Daily Memo | February 17, 2021 | Learning to Wait
What are we to think when we have prayed but the Lord doesn’t answer? As creatures limited by time, we can find waiting very frustrating. However, God doesn’t perceive time as we do. He knows the end of a matter before it has even begun. His knowledge reaches from eternity past to eternity future, and nothing is hidden from His sight. Furthermore, His compassion and lovingkindness surround those who belong to Him. He allows difficult circumstances in our life,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Practicing His Presence | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/17/2021
The Daily Memo | February 16, 2021 | The Burden of False Guilt
Guilt is an emotional response to wrongdoing. We should feel the Lord’s conviction when we disobey His commandments, or even when we break civil laws that do not contradict God’s laws. But there’s another kind of guilt that is not from the Lord but from man. Called “false guilt,” it has different forms. Legalism is a form of religion that holds firmly to man-made rules rather than to Christ (Col. 2:16-23). It has no power for salvation or…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Understanding Love, Restored in Him | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/16/2021
The Daily Memo | February 15, 2021 | Jesus Disciples
Jesus needs to disciple these fishermen, tax collectors, and political revolutionaries who dropped their careers to follow him. I’m not sure we’ve understood the ramifications of his decision. We just think, Oh, yeah, the disciples, and forget what was actually required for them to become apostles. This is going to take a lot of work. There’s no fairy godmother waving her wand here; these pumpkins don’t just turn into coaches. To be a crowd-drawing…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/15/2021
The Daily Memo | February 12, 2021 | A Future With Forgiveness
In 1994, when South Africa made the transition from government by apartheid (imposed racial segregation) to a democracy, it faced the difficult question of how to address the crimes committed under apartheid. The country’s leaders couldn’t ignore the past, but merely imposing harsh punishments on the guilty risked deepening the country’s wounds. As Desmond Tutu, the first black Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, explained in his book No Future Without,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/12/2021
The Daily Memo | February 11, 2021 | The Danger of Error in the Church
Ever since the beginning of church history, believers have been in a battle for the truth. That’s why, in today’s reading, Paul admonished Timothy to be faithful—not only in preaching God’s Word but also in refuting false doctrines. Both types of instruction are necessary for the health of a local congregation. False teaching … Leads to further ungodliness (2 Timothy 2:16). A false teacher’s words may sound religious, but something…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Practicing His Presence, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 02/11/2021