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Not vibe content. Not self-help sermons.This is spiritual formation for the few still choosing the narrow path.
This is messages from cracked jars — of doctrine made livable, fire made daily, and grace made costly.
For those burned by noise but still hungry for God.
Slow episodes. Sharp truths.
No hype. Just the hard and holy road home.
This is messages from cracked jars — of doctrine made livable, fire made daily, and grace made costly.
For those burned by noise but still hungry for God.
Slow episodes. Sharp truths.
No hype. Just the hard and holy road home.
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To become the person God wants us to be, we have to be real. Being real is being authentic, true, and genuine. With this mindset, we will see repentance in a new light, as something that we need to do, not something we avoid.
Our selfishness might seems tame, but the sin actually a seed that could derail even the strongest relationship. By being aware of others' interests, make time and budget to help others, and open ourselves to different perspectives and disagreement, we will be able to swim against our own sinful nature of selfishness.
It is natural to have doubt as believers. Yet Jesus shows that even when we struggle with our unbeliefs, he is there to guide us through.
Waiting time does not equal to a passive season. Everyday we have a purpose and calling to live our lives the way God wants little by little until we see the compounding effect in our lives.
We live in a fast-paced world with ever-moving goals, expectations, and priorities. In the Bible, we see Jesus as a role when he turned our Eisenhower Matrix upside down and advised Martha that hustling might not always be the necessary thing.
From Moses we learned that God looks through our identity crisis, personal weakness and limitation. If he calls us out, it is not because of what we can do or who we are but more because of who He is.
When we are coming back to our previous normal life, we need to live our lives respecting Sabbath - honoring God and others. We need to be able to rest right and rest better as we comeback to our high pace life.
To live a foolproof life, we need to know what fool means biblically, and learn humility. There are many traits of fools that we might easily identify with ourselves when we do not hear others, refuse to learn, and even further we adopt a defensive stance whenever we are being reminded or rebuked.
Wisdom sustains us through difficult situations. Thus to lead a foolproof life, God might allow us to be pressureed, in a hardship and even among fools. However God does not leave us alone and He gives wisdom to us, so that we can come out winning.
Proverbs writes about hindrances of wisdom, among them simple, folly and scoffer. We even might see it these traits in ourselves from time to time. The Bible tells about the symptoms for us to evaluate and gives some great examples of how low we can fall if we do not have wisdom to navigate through our lives.
We cannot avoid a bad season in our lives, but in those seasons God wants us to respond the right way. When we respond to our situation the way God intended to, the results might not go our way but we can still see God's agenda and will come to pass.
Our God understands our situation. Through Elijah, we learned that He is God that does not condemn nor neglect us even if we lose faith and on a valley. We can rest assured that we will always find rest, and purpose in Him.
Ezekiel prophesized the breath of life into a valley of dry bones, and we see how our God is the God of resurrection. He is able to overcome the worst circumstances to brings his plan to completion. This is why our lives as believers would never be a boring life, but one teemed with assignments, purposes, and ultimately fulfillment.
Our lives as Christian matter, regardless of whether we are feeling it or not. We learned from Ruth about selflessness, resilience, and faith. We can take hope that living our lives with God would make our lives filled with wonder and interest.
There were times in our lives when we feel spiritually weary. We do not want to do anything related to God, all activities seem like a chore to us. At such times, it is important for us to understand that it is normal, and we need to respond differently to different causes of weariness. There is an invitation to rest and to rely on God full of love and always in control.
Friendship is a God-given precious relationship. As sin enters it, it brings toxicity to all related parties and brings hurt to everyone.
Insecurities and expectations are the next relationship killers. These traits easily crept in and usually seems like the wrong is on the other side of the relationship. We craved from others things that should've come from God as opposed to men.
Peter walking on water is less about a miraculous act and more about dealing with doubt and fear, knowing that Jesus does not mock our little faith but reach out instead to bring us up.
Living a faithful life does not mean that we live a doubt-free life. On the other hand, we learned from Thomas that all the doubts that we face should not be a dead-end and can be a turning point toward our destinies.
Obedience started with knowing God's will and intention. We learned that even if we regularly go to church or serving the Lord, it does not mean that we have little difficulty living in obedience. However, by evaluating how we live, we can reflect back on how tune our heart is with God's.
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