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The Daily Memo | November 8, 2023 | The Movements Of Your Heart
All sorts of awful things can seem to issue from your heart — anger, lust, fear, petty jealousies. If you think it's you, a reflection of what's really going on in your heart, it will disable you. It could stop your journey dead in its tracks. What you've encountered is either the voice of your flesh or an attempt of the Enemy to distress you by throwing all sorts of thoughts your way and blaming you for it. You must proceed on this assumption: your…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/08/2023
Fear Not | Former Force Recon Marine and DoD Contractor Chad Robichaux Tells Us Why
Chad Robichaux shares briefly on the topic of Fear. He's no stranger to it. Chad is a former Force Recon Marine and DoD Contractor with eight deployments to Afghanistan as part of a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Task Force. After overcoming his personal battles with PTSD and nearly becoming a veteran suicide statistic, Chad founded the Mighty Oaks Foundation, a leading non-profit, serving the active duty, military veteran and first responder communities…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/07/2023
The Daily Memo | November 7, 2023 | Learning to Walk by Faith
When the Bible tells us about a great man or woman of faith, the Lord in His kindness also often shows us the person’s weakness and failings. For example, let’s look at Abraham. Like any one of us, he had faults. He sinned. He made mistakes. Still, God loved him and accomplished great things through his life. When the Lord spoke, Abraham listened. Just imagine what promises and blessings he would have missed if he’d failed to pay attention. (See Gen. 12:1;…
Categories: Walking With God, Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/07/2023
101. Are You Stuck On This Journey with Christ?
Our journey as Believers in Christ can seem long and arduous. We get stuck in places we never knew existed. God intends for us to develop a deeper intimacy with Him but we lose sight of His goodness and grace. Jesus’ greatest commands seem illusive yet He provides the antidote. Working harder to garner His love is not the solution. On today’s podcast, Steve and Colleen delve deeper into the stuckness and solutions toward a deeper relationship with Christ. Link…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/06/2023
The Daily Memo | November 6, 2023 | A Different Kind of Wound
The strength of my emotional reaction to a problem is correlated with how closely that situation gets to touching my personal wounds. We all have wounds, whether from serious trauma in our lives or from the all-too-common mini-tragedies of being human in a broken world. If we don't truly heal from a wound, we find ways to escape the pain. We cover it up with distractions, numbing agents, and/or with our anger. But once covered, we do not want to uncover a wound. There…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, Wounded Healer | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/06/2023
The Daily Memo | November 3, 2023 | Beauty for Ashes
In the aftermath of the Marshall Fire, the most destructive fire in Colorado history, one ministry offered to help families search through the ashes for valuable items. Family members mentioned precious objects they hoped were still preserved. Very little was. One man spoke tenderly of his wedding ring. He’d placed it on his dresser in the upstairs bedroom. The house now gone, its contents had charred or melted into a single layer of debris at the basement level.…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/03/2023
The Daily Memo | November 2, 2023 | Releasing the Heart
Remember, the purpose of this thing called the Christian life is that our hearts might be restored and set free. That's the deal. That's what Jesus came to do, by his own announcement. Jesus wants Life for us, Life with a capital L, and that Life comes to us through our hearts. But restoring and releasing the heart is no easy project. God doesn't just throw a switch and poof—it's done. He sends his Counselor to walk with us instead. That tells us it'…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/02/2023
The Daily Memo | November 1, 2023 | Experiencing Jesus
As a wise old sage was praying with me through some of the painful memories of my life, I was immediately reminded of the time in middle school when my first girlfriend broke my heart. These wounds can linger for a lifetime if you let them — the first cut is the deepest, and all that. We asked Jesus to take me back to the memory. I saw us, the girl and me; it was that fateful summer day. We were in the living room, just as it happened. Then I saw Jesus enter the room.…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, Practicing His Presence | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/01/2023
The Daily Memo | October 31, 2023 | The Choice is Ours
God makes Himself known to everyone but lets us decide whether to pursue a relationship with Him. Unfortunately, those who don’t choose God ultimately end up feeling restless and empty. And the reason is because He has “set eternity in [our] heart” (Ecclesiastes 3:11). By God’s design, true satisfaction is found only in a relationship with Him. Without the Lord, people continuously seek new ways to temporarily fill their hearts. And that quest often…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Identity Security | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/31/2023
Intimacy with God | An Excerpt from Our Upcoming Book | Embracing Brokenness
The term “intimacy with God” has become one of those phrases that Christians often toss about in conversation. But how many of us know what it means? I certainly did not, as my story confirms. I was one of the many who confused knowing the Lord with knowing about Him. I knew a lot about God, being an academic and studier of things. But what I found is there is such a huge difference in knowing about, versus knowing intimately. Consider this, American Christians…
Categories: Walking With God, Embracing Brokenness Book Excerpt, Practicing His Presence, Blog | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/30/2023