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Devotions based on Jan Johnson’s book ,”Invitation to the Jesus Life Today’s devotion is on being a good listener and I certainly have a long ways to go in being an attentive listener. Do we often listen with half an ear and presume we already know what the other person has to say, waiting for…
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Devotions from Jan Johnson’s book Invitation to the Jesus Life Jesus calls us friends! Is that a radical thought? Too often we frame God’s invitation to share His life as a contract. We may view Him like a vending machine.. If we put in the coin of good deeds, church activities etc then He will…
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Today I woke with the words of a song, “Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” The sky was so clear with moon and stars and so awesome. Our whole trip home last night was one of beauty as the moon looked like a ball of fire. Devotions from…
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As we men go about our everyday life, we forget that our present Western culture is a product of ideas that were planted centuries ago in Western consciousness. As these ideas grew and flourished, they brought forth their fruit over time. This fruit produced behavior that is present in culture t0day. One such idea is the individualism and hyper-individualism that pervades…
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Devotions from Gary Moon’s book Apprenticeship with Jesus We were made for Him! To become more like Him it takes vision, intention and means. ( VIM) Vision is “ the ability to see ourselves radically transformed and authentically living life a whole new way in God’s Kingdom on earth—head-over-heels in love with both the Creator…
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Devotions from Gary Moon’s book, Apprenticeship with Jesus Today our author talks about being well balanced in our approach to spiritual formation and uses 6 different groups. If we zero in on only one we end up having a “spiritual eating disorder”, so we need to partake of each of them. Contemplative: Spending time with…
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Devotions from Gary Moon’s book, Apprenticeship With Jesus for 11-2 Hurry is an expression of anxiety and the sign of a deeper problem. Dallas Willard said, “One of the greatest enemies to service to Jesus is service to Jesus. If you are not experiencing your yoke as easy and your burden as light, then you…
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Devotions from Gary Moon’s book Apprenticeship with Jesus John Calvin said, “For as the surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves,, so the only haven of safety is to have no other will, no other wisdom, than to follow the Lord wherever He leads. Let this, then, be the first step, to…
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Like most men, Job struggled to understand the involvement of God in his life. His experience brought him to the place of humiliation, as he humbly surrendered in dependance to God. He made the following confession. “You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I – and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things…
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Devotions from Gray Moon’s book Apprenticeship with Jesus Sometimes life gives us lots of painful shocks and we try to deaden the pain. The painkillers may take the form of certain patterns of behavior—like perfectionism, overachievement, approval seeking, avoidance, people pleasing, co-dependence, always being in control etc. Regardless of the form, these God-substitutes are idols…