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The Wake-Up Call is a daily encouragement to shake off the slumber of our busy lives and turn our eyes toward Jesus. Each morning our community gathers around a Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, and a few short questions, inviting us to reorient our lives around the love of Jesus that transforms our hearts, homes, churches, and cities. seedbed.com/wakeupcall
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Our chief calling and highest ambition is to apply ourselves to understanding and appropriating and creatively enacting the meaning of these five words: "As I have loved you."
Humility is the deeply human disposition of a person who has come to know and embrace their deepest worth.
In this Wake-Up Call Conversation, host JD Walt engages in a heartfelt conversation with Rich Wilson, focusing on the importance of spiritual parenting and the role of local churches in supporting college students. Rich shares his journey of working with the collegiate generation for over 27 years, emphasizing the significance of seizing opportunities and trusting in divine purpose. They speak on the high and low moments of life as we pass through good and hard seasons, and how God meets us in thost moments.
The discussion highlights the transformative power of intergenerational relationships, encouraging listeners to embrace their unique callings and contribute to the spiritual growth of younger generations. The episode also touches on Rich's upcoming book, "A Call Less Ordinary," which explores the concept of calling through life's seasons.
We put so much stock and confidence in horsepower, while Scripture is clear that horsepower will never get it done.
Grace me to be a better friend to others—to listen deeply, to take the time to see into them, and to call forth their deepest and truest self.
1Poverty is a diabolical reality, and to the extent we judge the poor for their poverty we perpetuate the cycle.
In the final analysis there are only two choices: humility or humiliation. Wisdom chooses while there's still time.
The meaning of life is learning to love like God loves, with creative power. The process is refinement.
We don’t put our trust in our plans. Nor do we trust that our plans are God’s will. We trust God.
Gentleness does not mean softness. It is probably more clearly seen in the way one expresses firmness.
Wisdom is the everyday expression of skillful love
There is no such thing as easy money.
The peace of God transcends. It actually breaks through the hard shell of anxiety and creates an alternative environment in our inner world.
Trust simply cannot be built on betrayal.
Our words may be the greatest power we possess.
The houses of our lives will not be built on the pillars and pilings of wisdom unless our days are built on them.
Wisdom begins with listening.
In this engaging conversation, J.D. Walt and Dan Wilt explore the profound themes of Lent and spiritual transformation through the lens of J.D.'s upcoming book, "Jesus Asking." They discuss the significance of Lent as a journey of questions rather than answers, emphasizing the importance of moving from self-improvement to transformation by embracing the questions Jesus poses. The dialogue delves into the concept of the Christian calendar as a linear, movemental journey, highlighting the cyclical nature of spiritual growth and the role of community in fostering relational wholeness. They reflect on the transformative power of questions, the journey through Lent, and the communal aspect of faith, encouraging listeners to engage deeply with the spiritual journey and the questions that lead to personal and communal transformation.
As we read our way into the Word, the Spirit will lead our path into the world.
Wisdom fashions an everyday world shaped by the Word of God.
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