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The Daily Memo | February 27, 2023 | Fighting Crows
Listen Until I met my wife, Colleen (resident bird expert among other things), I couldn’t tell the difference between an eagle and an egret. Now I can spot the difference between a Goshawk and a Redtail in flight. Who knew there was so much beauty flying overhead? Certainly not me. That would explain my curiosity when I heard a quartet of crows squawking outside my office window. I looked out to discover two of the four battling it out in the branches of a nearby oak.…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/27/2023
The Daily Memo | February 24, 2023 | Belief is a Choice
Listen I don’t think we’ve admitted to ourselves just how much belief is a choice. Some mornings you wake and feel God is near; the day looks hopeful. Next morning God seems far; the day has no color to it. For years I wrote this experience off to the ins and outs of the spiritual life, clouded by the weather of my emotions. Then Jesus began to show me something. Innumerable times in the past several years, I’d be in a time of prayer, asking God’s…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/24/2023
The Daily Memo | February 23, 2023 | The Maze of Humanity
Listen During a recent business trip we took by train to New York, a friend and I found ourselves meandering through the maze of humanity in Penn Station looking for a connection to our final destination on Long Island. It was a long day. The alarm went off at 3:30 in the morning to catch an Amtrak train at 5:20 that would eventually get us to Huntington around 11:00. Brilliant, right? While dodging more people in one place than imaginable, we simultaneously had the same.…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/23/2023
The Daily Memo | February 22, 2023 | Reading and Waiting
Listen Can you think of a pivotal moment that led to your relationship with Jesus? Most of us can name a special person or set of circumstances that helped us get to know Him. Or perhaps you’re reading this out of curiosity, and you don’t know Him at all. Regardless of what state your relationship with God is in, the fact remains: He loves you and will never give up on you. Paul writes, “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8).…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/22/2023
The Daily Memo | February 21, 2023 | Five Miracles
Listen The passage in Matthew where Peter is invited to walk on water is a familiar one to most of us. Every time I read it, I put myself in Peter's place for an instant. Not only physically but metaphorically. Can you imagine walking on the surface of the water to the outstretched hand of Jesus? On so many levels it would have been a monumental moment in not only Peter’s life, but in the rest of the disciples watching. But….. that was not the only miracle…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/21/2023
The Daily Memo | February 20, 2023 | Never Too Far Gone
Listen I’m a few days into a Bible Reading Plan on the YouVersion app authored by Sheila Walsh. She remarks in one of the 7 days of the devotional: “Can you imagine a world without guilt, shame, or regret? We know this is too good to be true in the world we live in. But this is exactly what Adam and Eve experienced.” It is hard to imagine, but what a delightful thought it is. Then sin entered the story and we all hid behind our fig leaves. Guilt, shame,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/20/2023
The Daily Memo | February 17, 2023 | Is This the Start of an Even Greater Revival?
Listen If you haven’t heard yet I’d suggest tuning in to what God is doing at Asbury University in Kentucky. Here’s the way Jake Taylor put it on NBC News, “A Christian service at a college chapel in Kentucky has ballooned into a nonstop prayer and worship session that some are calling a "revival" — and people are traveling thousands of miles to take part in it after seeing viral videos on TikTok.” “The first day we had a…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Hope of Healing, The Reality of Our Present World, Safe People & Safe Community | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/17/2023
The Daily Memo | February 16, 2023 | Paradise Lost
Listen So, we bit the fruit . . . then what? We were thrust into a world at war. Paradise was lost. But not forever. Genesis 3:23 describes it: “The Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life”. God is so loving, even in our disobedience, that he…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, Embracing Brokenness Book Excerpt, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/16/2023
The Daily Memo | February 15, 2023 | Whom Can You Trust?
Listen A recent Gallup poll measured public perceptions of the honesty and ethics of various professions. I was a bit taken aback, not by the profession at the top of the list (Nurses), but one that showed up 6th on the list - Clergy. 34% of those surveyed rated clergy as very high or high in honesty and ethics. 58% ranked clergy as average to very low in the trust category. That’s discouraging but telling. The good news is their ranking is not nearly as low as,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/15/2023
The Daily Memo | February 14, 2023 | Pause, and Notice
Listen You don't need to travel far to find beauty. God has strewn beauty across the globe in such generous portions we have only to stop and notice, paying particular attention to the intimate. Yes, epic beauty is worth traveling to see–the Himalaya, the Maasai Mara, Yosemite, any tropic island. But intimate beauty is just as healing, perhaps more so, and available everywhere. (I shared the St. Albans story to remind my urban readers beauty can be found even in,…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Practicing His Presence | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 02/14/2023