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The Daily Memo | October 17, 2023 | What Is Truth?
In the Garden of Gethsemane, hours before His arrest, Jesus prayed for the disciples: “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17). A little later, when questioned by Pilate, Jesus replied that He’d come into the world to testify to the truth. This prompted Pilate’s philosophical question that people today still ask: “What is truth?” (John 18:37-38). The meaning of the word corresponds to what actually is, not what we…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/17/2023
The Daily Memo | October 16, 2023 | Life Principle | Brokenness
Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.Who do you trust in more than the Lord? What is God stripping away from your life? The answer to these questions may explain why God is working so hard to break your dependence upon anything other than Himself—no matter how long it takes or how difficult the process may be. He’s committed to bringing you to a place of wholeness and spiritual maturity—conforming you to the likeness of His Son .…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, Restored in Him, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/16/2023
The Daily Memo | October 13, 2023 | The Whole Box of Chocolates
Everything in you may be saying, “But you don’t understand. I want to eat that whole box of chocolates (or sleep with my boyfriend, or let my anger really fly). That’s what really seems like life to me right now.” God says, “I know you do, but it’ll kill you in the end. What you think is life is not. That’s not the comfort (or the love, or the significance) you are seeking. You’ll wind up destroying yourself.” The…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/13/2023
The Daily Memo | October 12, 2023 | The Message of the Prophets
Before baseball’s 1906 World Series, sportswriter Hugh Fullerton made an astute prediction. He said the Chicago Cubs, who were expected to win, would lose the first and third games and win the second. Oh, and it would rain on the fourth. He was right on each point. Then, in 1919, his analytical skills told him certain players were losing World Series games intentionally. Fullerton suspected they’d been bribed by gamblers. Popular opinion ridiculed him. Again, he…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/12/2023
The Daily Memo | October 11, 2023 | Trials and Joy
The Bible tells us to “Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials” (James 1:2). What a preposterous statement! Do you know anyone who thinks joy and trials fit together? But James is presenting God’s perspective—not a human one. Suffering has some surprising benefits that aren’t readily apparent to most people. It’s important to realize these verses are not telling us to be happy in our pain but rather…
Categories: Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/11/2023
The Daily Memo | October 10, 2023 | Live In A Relationship With God
A Times columnist Bernard Levin spoke of how there is a hole inside each of us. However much you try to fill it with food, drink, relationships, possessions, ‘it aches’. You were created for a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Without that relationship we ache.People try to fill this hole with different things. For some, it is alcohol, and although there is nothing wrong with drinking wine, it does not satisfy the deep inner thirst we have in our hearts…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/10/2023
99. Professor Nancy Pearcey Part 2 | The Toxic War on Masculinity
Part 2 of our 2-part Podcast series with special guest, Professor Nancy Pearcey. We go deeper into the toxic war on masculinity and examine our roles and cultural mandate as Christians. Nancy Pearcey's latest book is The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Her earlier books include Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and two ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winners:…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/09/2023
The Daily Memo | October 9, 2023 | The Generosity of Friends and Their Calling
It’s so peaceful here. It’s called Togus Pond but I’ve never seen a lake-sized pond like this one. It’s beautiful. Tree-lined shores surrounded by nature and a few lakehomes dot the landscape. The sounds of God’s creation are all around, starting with the unique call of the Kingfisher and Loon. Add in a couple Pintail ducks and the symphony begins. What could be better than this? Heaven, I’m sure, but this feels like a close second. We…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Our Purpose | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/09/2023
The Daily Memo | October 6, 2023 | Beauty That Can Not Be Captured
We long for beauty, and when the biblical writers speak of heaven, they use the most beautiful imagery they can. You can almost hear the agony of the writer trying to get it right while knowing he falls far short of what he sees. In the book of Revelation, John uses the word like again and again. “And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance ... Before the throne…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/06/2023
What Is Our Cultural Mandate? | Professor Nancy Pearcey
In Genesis God gives us our cultural mandate. Why is our purpose so hard to understand and fulfill? Society today has a different idea of what we were created for. Men are seen as toxic, unsure of even their own selves where they're neutralized. Professor Pearcey reminds us of what that mandate is from God's perspective. Genesis 1 verse 28 "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/05/2023