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The Daily Memo | November 1, 2022 | Building the House
In 1889, the most ambitious private home construction project in the United States began. On-site manufacturing produced some 32,000 bricks a day. The work continued until the completion of George Vanderbilt II’s “summer house”—six years later. The result was the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. To this day, it remains the largest private residence in America, with 250 rooms (including 35 bedrooms and 43 bathrooms) consuming a staggering 178…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 11/01/2022
The Daily Memo | October 31, 2022 | God Has a Beauty to Unveil
God has a beauty to unveil. There's a reason that a man is captivated by a woman. Eve is the crown of creation. If you follow the Genesis narrative carefully, you'll see that each new stage of creation is better than the one before. First, all is formless, empty and dark. God begins to fashion the raw materials, like an artist working with a rough sketch or a lump of clay. Light and dark, land and sea, earth and sky—it's beginning to take shape. With a,…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Return to the Garden | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/31/2022
The Daily Memo | October 28, 2022 | Understanding Your True Identity
Have you ever felt like a failure, or of no use to God, or thought that God wouldn’t want to answer your prayers? Until I first read Colin Urquhart’s book, *In Christ Jesus*, I had never realized how significant that little word ‘*in*’ is in the New Testament. Understanding that, as a Christian, you are ‘*in*’ Christ Jesus revolutionizes how you see yourself, your self-image, your identity and how you understand your value to God. Write…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/28/2022
The Daily Memo | October 27, 2022 | Praying to Our Sovereign God
Prayer is the heartbeat of the believer’s walk with God, and He commands us to pray about everything (Phil. 4:6). But we sometimes wonder what kind of influence our conversations with the Lord really have, and we find ourselves asking the following two questions: 1. If God controls all things, why does He want us to pray? He’s self-sufficient and needs no help to accomplish His purposes, so what could any of us possibly contribute? 2. Would God’s plans…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/27/2022
The Daily Memo | October 26, 2022 | Respect Others Like Jesus
Thanksgiving Day meals in America bring families together for a delicious ham or turkey dinner. But they are notorious for family spectacle as well—the picky great-aunt who remembers when she could cook better, the politically active uncle who can’t hold his opinions back, the growing son helping himself to a fourth serving of potatoes. Sometimes manners don’t match the occasion. Turns out, family drama is nothing new. In the first century church,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Hope of Healing, Wounded Healer | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/26/2022
The Daily Memo | October 25, 2022 | How He Sees You
Part of our healing comes with forgiveness (of ourselves and others), and part of it comes with repentance. But first, we have to begin with how God sees us. How he sees you. Do you know? You are deeply and completely loved (Rom. 8:38–39) You are totally and completely forgiven (1 John 2:12) When God sees you, he sees the righteousness of Jesus (2 Cor. 5:21) You mean the whole world to him (John 3:16) He thinks you are beautiful. Right now (Song of Sol. 4:1) He is…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/25/2022
74. How God Works
God is at work all the time. That means many different things to many different people. What often is missing in our understanding of that truth is the ability to notice Him. To notice Him in nearly every aspect of our lives as Believers. He wants to be in relationship with us constantly. Not just in an emergency. Even in the simple things. In today’s podcast, Steve discusses hearing from God from a different perspective. Click Here and Listen to the Podcast
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/24/2022
The Daily Memo | October 24, 2022 | On Behalf of Others
“Love your neighbor as yourself,” Jesus taught (Mark 12:31), implying a direct link between one and the other. Loving our neighbor is clearly an essential to Christian faith; I think we all get that one. But the qualifier “as yourself” is lost upon most people; it confounded me for years. It almost sounds too pop psychology, something you’d see on the cover of the magazines at the checkout stand, right next to the articles on “brain superfoods;…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/24/2022
The Daily Memo | October 21, 2022 | Rediscovered
In 1970, a car executive visiting Denmark learned that a 1939 Buick Dual Cowl Phaeton was owned by a local resident. Since the car never actually went into production, it was a rare find—a one-of-kind vehicle. Delighted with the discovery, the executive bought the car and spent his time and money to have it restored. Currently, this unique car is featured in a world-renowned collection of classic vehicles. Hidden treasures can take many forms, and in the book of 2…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/21/2022
The Daily Memo | October 20, 2022 | Rely on God's Love
We have fears below the surface that we don’t consciously know we have. God wants us to be free of them. How can we be? Well, he has made a way for us. It is the way of his love. His perfect love for us casts out all fear. "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them...There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear...The one who fears is not made perfect in love." (1 John 4:16&ndash…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 10/20/2022