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The Daily Memo | December 4, 2023 | Acquiring Discernment
Discernment is the ability to make sound judgments by perceiving what is not readily obvious, and it is critical to our life in God. For example, what should you do when you want to follow the Lord but have multiple choices that appear promising and good? How can you know if you’re hearing from God or simply listening to your own desires? All we have to do is ask. Proverbs 2 says, “If you cry out for insight, and raise your voice for understanding … then…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Practicing His Presence, Knowing & Being Known, Prayer | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 12/04/2023
The Spiritual Plateau | Part 1
There are times in our spiritual journey when we reach a spiritual plateau. We're faced with a choice. Do we stay stuck, or do we press into God more deeply and seek His solutions for that stuckness. Colleen and Steve share the challenges and solutions to staying in the battle and giving God all the glory.
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 12/01/2023
The Daily Memo | December 1, 2023 | The Stream of Counseling
This stream of Counseling doesn't just flow to us directly from Christ, only from him; it flows through his people as well. We need others—and need them deeply. Yes, the Spirit was sent to be our Counselor. Yes, Jesus speaks to us personally. But often he works through another human being. The fact is, we are usually too close to our lives to see what's going on. Because it's our story we're trying to understand, we sometimes don't know what'…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 12/01/2023
The Daily Memo | November 30, 2023 | Developing a Discerning Spirit
No matter how long a person has known Jesus, every faith journey ebbs and flows—with regard to doubt, intimacy, despair, joy, and more. Today’s passage discusses one such area of fluctuation: our ability to discern. Comparing discernment to a baby’s diet, the writer of Hebrews observed that Jewish Christians at the time lacked spiritual wisdom and needed help consuming information. However, he went on to say that they could mature; they just needed to &ldquo…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/30/2023
The Daily Memo | November 29, 2023 | Setting Our Busyness Down
Now, rest is just one of the ways we receive the life of God. We stop, set all of our busyness down, and allow ourselves to be replenished. This is supposed to happen regularly. The original prescription was weekly. So why does rest feel like a luxury? Seriously, it feels irresponsible. We think we can drive ourselves like oxen fifty weeks a year, resurrect in a two-week vacation, then go back and do it all again. That is madness. My pushing and striving cut me off from the…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/29/2023
The Daily Memo | November 28, 2023 | Dry Bones Breathe
“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, &ldquo…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/28/2023
The Daily Memo | November 27, 2023 | Limits
Our experience of Jesus is limited most often by the limits we put on him! A painful truth, but also a hopeful one. Perhaps we can take down some of those barriers. Most of the limits we put on Jesus happen unconsciously. Sometimes we place the limits intentionally. And of course, a trainload is dumped on us by our context (in which case the parable could begin, “One day a man was boarded up inside his house by his past,” or, “by the leaders of his…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/27/2023
The Daily Memo | November 24, 2023 | The Game of Life
If you want to improve your life, improve your choices. If you want to improve your choices, improve your emotional health. If you want to improve your emotional health, improve the stories you tell yourself. If you want to improve the stories you tell yourself, learn to pay close attention to your thoughts. Ask, 'Why am I having this thought?' It doesn't matter whether you win or not if the game you're playing is the wrong game. Amassing power in your…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/24/2023
The Daily Memo | November 22, 2023 | Jesus Will Never Betray You
Who among us has not suffered betrayal at the hands of a trusted friend? Who among us has not shrunk away in response to being hurt? Which one of us has not been responsible for wounding another? We all have. We all have. We need Jesus. We need mercy. We need healing. We are not meant to live this life alone, and we won’t get very far along on our journey if we try. We don’t have the luxury of insisting we never be hurt again. We don’t get to insist on,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/22/2023
The Daily Memo | November 21, 2023 | Revelation: Listening for His Voice
I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. (John 16:12-13) There's more that Jesus wants to say to you, much more, and now that his Spirit resides in your heart, the conversation can continue. Many good people never hear God speak to them personally for the simple fact that they've never been told that he does. But he does—generously, intimately. "He who belongs…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/21/2023