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To Be Honest
I walked out of the grocery store twice in the last week with items I didn’t pay for. Almond milk one time, and pepperoni the other. They were in the lower part of the cart, and I neglected to scan them - one time at the self-checkout and another when I had the clerk doing all the work. I discovered the mishap when I unloaded the cart into my car and there they were. My ill-gotten gains. Immediately I said two things to myself. First, I don’t want to go back in…
Categories: The Reality of Our Present World, Blog | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/27/2022
The Daily Memo | September 27, 2022 | The Artist
Sunlight on water. Songbirds in a forest. Desert sands under moonlight. Vineyards just before harvest. These all share something in common—they reflect the heart of a particular artist. They are his masterpieces, his expression and his gift to us. The artist’s name is Jesus. Something else lies in common between these treasures and Jesus as well— words on a page cannot compare to a personal experience. Sailing the ocean on a bright morning with the wind in…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/27/2022
72. Dying to Self
For many of us, the notion of dying to self is a foreign one. What does that even mean? Paul wrote in his letter to the Galatians "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Luke quoting Jesus said, "And he said to all, 'If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/26/2022
The Daily Memo | September 26, 2022 | Take Every Thought Captive
In order for us to live in freedom and become the women we are to become, we need to receive God’s love even in our lowest places. Spiritual warfare is designed to separate you from the love of God. Its goal is to keep you from living in the freedom that Jesus has purchased for you. Satan whispers to us when we have failed or sinned or are feeling horrid that we are nothing and no one. He is a liar. And our fight for our freedom involves exposing him for who he is…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/26/2022
The Daily Memo | September 23, 2022 | Money, Sex, and Power
In his Introduction to Living in the Light - Money, Sex & Power, John Piper made a few very insightful observations. “God did not conceive and create money, sex, and power simply to be a temptation. He had good purposes in mind. Money, sex, and power exist for the great aims of God in human history. They are not detours on the path of God-exalting joy. Along with all the rest of God’s good world they are the path. With them we can show the supreme worth of God.;…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Embracing Brokenness Book Excerpt, Sexual Brokenness & The Church | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/23/2022
The Daily Memo | September 22, 2022 | Friendship: A Help to Holiness
Of all that God created, one thing did not meet with His approval. With regard to Adam, He said, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18). The Creator designed people for emotional, mental, and physical intimacy—to share their innermost selves with one another. Jesus taught His disciples that they should love each other as He had loved them. (John 15:12). In a God-honoring friendship, two people build each other up and spur one another toward.…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/22/2022
The Daily Memo | September 21, 2022 | The Longing to Belong
Whatever else it means to be human, we know beyond doubt that it means to be relational. Aren’t the greatest joys and memories of your life associated with family, friendship, or falling in love? Aren’t your deepest wounds somehow connected to someone also, to a failure of relationship? That you were loved but are no longer, or that you never have been chosen? One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/21/2022
The Daily Memo | September 20, 2022 | The Nagging Sense of Dissatisfaction
Have you ever found yourself simply standing in front of the refrigerator, not looking for anything specific but wanting to fill a longing? At other times, our craving involves something other than food, such as a career, possessions, or relationships. Our souls are continually trying to find satisfaction, but nothing in this world will fill the void. Since we were created for relationship with God, He placed deep within us a yearning for Him. Though we may not recognize it…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, The Reality of Our Present World | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/20/2022
The Daily Memo | September 19, 2022 | New DNA in Jesus
Chris had his blood retested four years after his lifesaving bone marrow transplant. The donor’s marrow had provided what was needed to cure him but had left a surprise: the DNA in Chris’ blood was that of his donor, not his own. It makes sense, really: the goal of the procedure was to replace the weakened blood with a donor’s healthy blood. Yet even swabs of Chris’ cheeks, lips, and tongue showed the donor’s DNA. In some ways, he’d…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Restored in Him | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/19/2022
The Daily Memo | September 16, 2022 | Who Is Jesus?
Who do people believe Jesus is? Some say He was a good teacher, but just a man. Author C. S. Lewis wrote, “Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher.” These now-famous words from Mere Christianity propound…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, Restored in Him | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/16/2022