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The Daily Memo | August 8, 2023 | A Distant Whisper
When the young prophet Samuel heard the voice of God calling to him in the night, he had the counsel from his priestly mentor, Eli, to tell him how to respond. Even so, it took them three times to realize it was God calling. Rather than ignoring the voice, or rebuking it, Samuel finally listened. In our modern, pragmatic world we often have no such mentor, so we do not understand it is God speaking to us in our heart. Having so long been out of touch with our deepest,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 08/08/2023
The Daily Memo | August 7, 2023 | Quiet Please
Green Bank, West Virginia, is a tiny community in the rugged Appalachian Mountains. The town resembles dozens of other small towns in the area—with one major exception. None of the 142 residents have access to Wi-Fi. This is to prevent interference from Wi-Fi or cellular phone towers near the Green Bank Observatory, whose telescope is constantly trained on the sky. As a result, Green Bank is one of the most technologically quiet places in North America. Sometimes…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 08/07/2023
The Daily Memo | August 4, 2023 | In the Last Days
In 2nd Timothy 3, it’s disheartening to read this list Paul makes of what people will be like in the last days, yet it shows us that as society gets darker, we as Christians have an amazing opportunity to shine brighter. “For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 08/04/2023
The Daily Memo | August 3, 2023 | Continue Sinning?
If I am saved and all of my sins are forgiven, why not continue to sin? The apostle Paul answered a very similar question in Romans 6:1-2, “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?” The idea that a person could “trust in Jesus Christ” for salvation and then go on living just as he/she lived before, is absolutely foreign to the Bible. For the truly,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, A New Name | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 08/03/2023
The Daily Memo | August 2, 2023 | Every Grief
“I measure every Grief I meet,” the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson wrote, “With narrow, probing, eyes – / I wonder if It weighs like Mine – / Or has an Easier size.” The poem is a moving reflection on how people carry the unique ways they’ve been wounded throughout their lives. Dickinson concludes, almost hesitantly, with her only solace: the “piercing Comfort” of seeing at Calvary her own wounds reflected in…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Hope of Healing, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 08/02/2023
The Daily Memo | August 1, 2023 | Grieving Our Loss
Just over a week ago, we experienced one of the most significant losses in our married lives together. Our best friend, confidant, playmate, and furry comforter left this world suddenly. Tucker, our Golden Retriever was wagging his tail in the morning and gone by late afternoon. Colleen sensed it was coming but it didn’t make it any easier. Tears were flowing in our home for days. Our four-legged friend was family - the best of the best. Always up for ball tosses,,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World, Practicing His Presence | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 08/01/2023
94. Chuck Girard Part 3 | His Struggles | His Music | Chuck Smith & The Jesus Movement
Chuck Girard joins Steve in this final episode of a 3-Part Embracing Brokenness Podcast series. Chuck shares how he met his wife, Karen, his struggles with alcohol, and how God saved him and moved him and his fellow Love Song bandmates to join Chuck Smith at Calvary Chapel, bringing the beginning of contemporary Christian music to all of us. He discusses his solo career and what will be his first album in a couple of decades. He leaves us with great advice and encouragement…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 07/31/2023
The Daily Memo | July 31, 2023 | Tiptoe Preaching
I coined a new phrase. Tiptoe Preaching. In short, Tiptoe Preaching is preaching that avoids hard-hitting facts using flowery language to teach Biblical Truth. What do I mean by that? Colleen and I were invited recently to speak at a small conference here in our local community. As we prayed about the topic chosen, it became clear that God wanted us to deliver a powerful truth. “Believers and The Spiritual Plateau” was the topic. The truth is how…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 07/31/2023
The Daily Memo | July 28, 2023 | A Woman of God
Women are image bearers of God. Women are co-heirs with Christ. Women are valued, worthy, powerful, and needed. There is a reason the Enemy fears women and has poured his hatred onto our very existence. Let him be afraid, then. For “we are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8–9). We are more than conquerors through Christ who strengthens,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, The Hope of Healing, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 07/28/2023
Answer the Door | By Guest Author Michael Kurtz
Greetings, fellow travelers. You who journey with Jesus Christ, partaking of the divine nature, grafted to the life-giving vine, and working out your salvation with fear and trembling. Today I bring a word of encouragement, inspired by very real and personal recent events. This is my testimony. We serve a timeless, all-powerful, loving, merciful God. The God of Abraham, Moses, King David, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The God who spoke to Moses from the burning bush,…
Categories: The Hope of Healing, Knowing & Being Known, Our Purpose, Blog | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 07/27/2023