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The Daily Memo | September 25, 2023 | When Plans Turn to Ashes
Whatever you acquire outside of God’s will eventually turns to ashes.The deepest desire present in every human heart—the one thing we’re truly longing for— is to know God.You may not understand the longing within you to be a desire for God—in fact, you may simply feel dissatisfaction with your life. Maybe the relationship you wanted and attained isn’t everything you thought it would be. Perhaps you have everything you’ve ever wanted…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Knowing & Being Known, Our Purpose | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/25/2023
The Daily Memo | September 22, 2023 | The Original Truth of Creation
Year after year, generation after generation, Rosh Hashanah is celebrated by countercultural groups of people who resist the thundering, punitive voice of the pharaoh who tries to reduce their identity to enslaved producers: “More bricks! More bricks!” Instead, it commemorates our existence as human miracles, not human resources. Rosh Hashanah says that we are already built to be loved by God and remain safe in his presence. Instead of asking us to please God …
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Safe People & Safe Community | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/22/2023
The Daily Memo | September 21, 2023 | Made Perfect
Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man. (1 Corinthians 15:49 NLT) You’ll be made perfect. Finally, the totality of your being will be saturated only with goodness. Think of all that you’re not going to have to wrestle with anymore. The fear that has been your lifelong battle, the anger, the compulsions. No more internal civil wars; no doubt, no lust, no regret; no shame. What has plagued you these last many years? What…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/21/2023
The Daily Memo | September 20, 2023 | Your Perspective in Prayer
Sometimes our conversations with God are fruitful. Other times prayer feels like talking to a wall. But in fact, we shouldn’t be surprised by such variation. Why would we expect our prayer life to remain uniform when we ourselves aren’t the same every day? How we speak and listen to God depends on ... Our understanding of who God is. The way we view the Lord changes the way we hear Him. For example, if you see God as a loving Father, you will hear His…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Prayer | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/20/2023
The Daily Memo | September 19, 2023 | A House Divided
Yes, we have all been wounded in this battle. And we will be wounded again. But something deeper has also happened to us than mere wounds. I expect that all of us at one time or another have said, "Well, part of me wants to, and another part of me doesn't." You know the feeling — part of you pulled one direction, part of you the other. Part of me loves writing and genuinely looks forward to a day at my desk. But not all of me. Sometimes I'm also…
Categories: The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/19/2023
The Daily Memo | September 18, 2023 | How Should a Christian React to all the Doomsday Predictions Out There?
From a Christian perspective, our first reaction should be to take a deep breath and relax. At some point in time, this world is going to end (2 Peter 3:10). Christ will return (Revelation 19:11–13) at the time He is prepared for (1 Corinthians 15:51–52). And yet, every single person on earth is a split second away from a personal doomsday, right now (Psalm 39:5). Heart attacks, war, accidents, and such can bring us face-to-face with our Creator more readily…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/18/2023
The Daily Memo | September 15, 2023 | God’s Ways: Ordinary or Miraculous?
In Isaiah 55, God declares, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways” (Isaiah 55:8). In fact, that’s one of the biggest frustrations of the Christian life—a lack of understanding about God’s ways. There are times when we could really use a miracle, and He doesn’t come through for us, which can lead to confusion, disappointment, and anger. Why did God let me down? God works in both supernatural and ordinary ways, and…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, Practicing His Presence, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/15/2023
The Daily Memo | September 14, 2023 | The Spirit Guides Us
Time after time the Scriptures help us make sense out of life’s puzzles: failing marriages, rebellious children, drug addiction, warring nations, the return of leaves in spring, the insatiable longings of our hearts, the fear of death, the coming into being of children, the universality of praise and blame, the prevalence of pride, and the admiration of self-denial. The Bible confirms its divine origin again and again as it makes sense out of our experience in the…
Categories: Walking With God, Spiritual Formation, The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/14/2023
The Daily Memo | September 13, 2023 | Everything Is Against Me
“This morning I thought I was worth a great deal of money; now I don’t know that I have a dollar.” Former US president Ulysses S. Grant said those words the day he was swindled out of his life’s savings by a business partner. Months later, Grant was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Concerned about providing for his family, he accepted an offer from author Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which he completed a week before he died. The Bible tells us…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Restored in Him | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/13/2023
The Daily Memo | September 12, 2023 | Unbelievable
This is the world [God] has made. This is the world that is still going on. And he doesn't walk away from the mess we've made of it. Now he lives, almost cheerfully, certainly heroically, in a dynamic relationship with us and with our world. "Then the Lord intervened" is perhaps the single most common phrase about him in Scripture, in one form or another. Look at the stories he writes. There's the one where the children of Israel are pinned against…
Categories: The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/12/2023