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The Daily Memo | September 15, 2022 | Lies We Believe About God
I’m reading a book written by the author of The Shack, Wm. Paul Young. In fact, it was a topic on this week's Embracing Brokenness Podcast. I'd encourage you to Listen Here. Many of the premises in his book have been considered controversial. I will say this, as I’ve delved deeper into what Young is saying I find myself agreeing more than disagreeing with the vast majority of the Lies We Believe about God, the book's title. I’ll focus on one…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/15/2022
The Daily Memo | September 14, 2022 | The Next Chapter
The next chapter of our story is precisely that—the chapter that follows all the chapters before and fits them perfectly. God is still telling a story; the next chapter is not disconnected from the rest. (I know it feels totally disconnected, but it is not.) If we will look at our future in light of the story God has been telling, it will banish the fog like a strong summer sun. In the next chapter, our powerful and creative Father re-creates us and the earth. He then…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Our Purpose | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/14/2022
The Daily Memo | September 13, 2022 | Lego Lessons
Approximately ten Lego pieces are sold for every person on earth each year—more than seventy-five billion of the little plastic bricks. But if it wasn’t for the perseverance of Danish toymaker Ole Kirk Christiansen, there wouldn't be any Legos to snap together. Christiansen toiled away in Billund, Denmark, for decades before creating Leg Godt, which means “play well.” His workshop was destroyed by fire twice. He endured bankruptcy and a world…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/13/2022
71. Lies We Believe About God
In today's Podcast, we examine the sometimes devastating fact that we believe lies about God. When lies are adopted as truth the consequences show up in dysfunctional behaviors and in ways that lead to confusion and mistrust. God is not a God of confusion. He's a God of Love not fear. We are created in His image and with His attributes. Those attributes have become distorted by sin and an enemy that would have us believe lies about God, ourselves, and others in an…
Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/12/2022
The Daily Memo | September 12, 2022 | What Is Your Role In The Story?
Now—what is your part? What is your role in the Story? In truth, the only one who can tell you that is the Author. To find our lives, we must turn to Jesus. We must yield our all to him and ask him to restore us as his own. We ask his forgiveness for our betrayal of him. We ask him to make us all he intended us to be—to tell us who we are and what we are now to do. We ask him to remove the veil from our eyes and from our hearts.The Story God is telling&mdash…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing, The Reality of Our Present World, Spiritual Warfare | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/12/2022
The Daily Memo | September 9, 2022 | Who’s the Boss?
It seems some people are born knowing what they want to do with their lives. Others jump around, trying one thing after another, never finding a fit. But both groups are in error—no matter how successful they are (or aren’t) in the world’s eyes—if they never asked God to help them discern His will. Psalm 103:19 tells us, “The LORD has established His throne in the heavens, and His sovereignty rules over all.” This means there is nothing…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/09/2022
The Daily Memo | September 8, 2022 | Good Kings - Evil Kings
The truth is that God’s desire is always to bless us. His commands and instruction are given so that you might flourish (see Deuteronomy 6:1–3). We see this in the fortunes of the different kings of Israel and Judah. The writer of 1 and 2 Kings gives us a thumbnail assessment of whether each king did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. Every one of the kings of Israel is described as doing ‘evil in the eyes of the Lord’ (2 Kings 17:2), and it…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/08/2022
The Daily Memo | September 7, 2022 | Know Yourself
The more you know yourself, the more this will prove an immensely helpful category. (And please, as Socrates urged, do not live an unexamined life; know yourself.) What are you historically prone to do when it comes to making decisions? If yours is a story filled with indecision, that “confusion” might have nothing to do with clarity and everything to do with fear, or shame, or a wounded heart. A young man afflicted with relational paralysis (he just couldn&rsquo…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/07/2022
The Daily Memo | September 6, 2022 | Plans and Providence
In 2000, an upstart company operating on a movie-rental-by-mail system offered to sell their company for $50 million to Blockbuster, the home movies and video game rentals king at that time. Netflix had roughly 300,000 subscribers, while Blockbuster had millions and millions of them. Blockbuster passed on the opportunity to purchase their little competitor. The result? Today Netflix has more than 180 million subscribers and is worth nearly $200 billion. As for Blockbuster,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, The Reality of Our Present World, Our Purpose | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/06/2022
The Daily Memo | September 5, 2022 | Echoes of the Garden in Our Very Souls
There are many places in our lives that we have a yearning--a mysterious hunger for something we may not consciously recognize. Is it possible that our unconscious remembers what it was like to walk and talk with God in the Garden of Eden? Or maybe even more absurd--could we remember our very own spiritual creation-- the one that takes place "before I placed you in your mothers’ womb?" (Jer 1:5) Have you ever closed your eyes for a few moments and asked God…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, Return to the Garden | Authored by: Steve Adams | Posted: 09/05/2022