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The Daily Memo | January 28, 2021 | Mighty
Baby Saybie, born as a “micro-preemie” at 23 weeks, weighed only 8.6 ounces. Doctors doubted Saybie would live and told her parents they’d likely have only an hour with their daughter. However, Saybie kept fighting. A pink card near her crib declared “Tiny but Mighty.” After five months in the hospital, Saybie miraculously went home as a healthy five-pound baby. And she took a world record with her: the world’s tiniest surviving baby. It&rsquo…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/28/2021
The Daily Memo | January 27, 2021 | The Wonderful One
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion return to Oz with the broomstick that empowered the Wicked Witch of the West. The Wizard had promised, in return for the broomstick, that he would give the four their deepest desires: a ride home for Dorothy, a brain for the Scarecrow, a heart for the Tin Man, and courage for the Cowardly Lion. But the Wizard stalls and tells them to come back the next day. While they plead with the,…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/27/2021
The Daily Memo | January 26, 2021 | Persecution Will Come
When we are engaged in the work God has called us to do in the world, some level of persecution is inevitable. For William Wilberforce, who had chosen to make abolition of the powerful slave trade the “Great Object” of his life, the persecution was intense. Wilberforce had every reason to be afraid for his life. During his decades-long fight to end slavery, multiple slave-ship captains threatened Wilberforce’s life. One even challenged him to a duel. As…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/26/2021
31. What Is Your Messiah? Podcast
How is your heart these days? During this COVID season, many have fallen into despair - downright depression. The opportunity exists for all of us to fall to temptation in behaviors that will yield anything but hope. What is your messiah? What have you turned to in an effort to anesthetize yourself from the hurt and pain that surrounds this world gone mad? Division, isolation, sickness, death. All signs expected from an unseen enemy doing everything possible to derail our…
Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/25/2021
The Daily Memo | January 25, 2021 | Who Are You Wearing?
The Argentine women’s basketball team came to their tournament game wearing the wrong uniforms. Their navy blue jerseys were too similar to Colombia’s dark blue jerseys, and as the visiting team they should have worn white. With no time to find replacement uniforms and change, they had to forfeit the game. In the future, Argentina will surely double-check what they’re wearing. In the time of the prophet Zechariah, God showed him a vision in which the high…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/25/2021
The Daily Memo | January 22, 2021 | On The Side Of Good
We are now in the late stages of the long and vicious war against the human heart. I know—it sounds overly dramatic. I almost didn't use the term "war" at all, for fear of being dismissed at this point as one more in the group of "Chicken Littles," Christians who run around trying to get everybody worked up over some imaginary fear in order to advance their political or economic or theological cause. But I am not hawking fear at all; I am…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/22/2021
What Is Your Messiah?
Tuning in online to Sunday mornings service I was struck by a question the guest speaker asked while teaching from I John 2 which warns us concerning antichrists. The question was a simple one. What is your Messiah? Not who but what. As I thought through that question it became clearer and clearer. Not only what John and today’s speaker was getting at, but how many times in my life the answer pointed to something other than Jesus. “Children, it is the last hour,…
Categories: The Hope of Healing, The Reality of Our Present World, Wounded Healer | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/21/2021
The Daily Memo | January 21, 2021 | Turning From Discouragement
Many people view discouragement and disappointment as the same thing, but there’s a slight difference. Disappointment is an emotional response to a failed expectation, whereas discouragement, or despair, usually comes from prolonged disillusionment or continued hardship. Since we cannot experience perfect success in a fallen world or keep ourselves from suffering, there’s no way to avoid all disappointments in life. However, we don’t have to yield to.…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/21/2021
The Daily Memo | January 20, 2021 | What Freedom Is and Isn’t
Today, we are bombarded by strong messages about freedom and how to obtain it. Whether we’re watching TV, listening to the radio, scrolling through social media, or reading the news, the message is consistent: The heart of freedom in the world is about making our own way, living life on our terms and without constraints. Yet in order to be free as the world understands it, we must be in control—we have to be the supreme being directing our life. There’s…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/20/2021
The Daily Memo | January 19, 2021 | Happily Ever After Has Been Stolen
Our Enemy is a thief, and of all the precious things he has stolen from our hearts, his worst act of treachery has been to steal our future from us. He has stolen all the magic and promise and wonder of the happily ever after. Very few of us live with hope. To those without faith, he has whispered, "Your story ends with an accident, and then...there is nothing. This is as good as it gets." Small wonder people drink too much, eat too much, watch too much TV,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, Return to the Garden, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 01/19/2021