Jesus came to earth and exemplified the normal Christian life. Various scriptures exhort us to become like Him. I don’t believe God would exhort us, even command us, to become something we could not become….to do something that is impossible for us to do. 1 John 2 tells us this …
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I often start the year with a long list of books I’d like to read. Many of them do get read, but some do not. Reading through the Bible this year is at the top of the list. After that, here’s my reading to-do list:The first 10 are on the …
My top 5 reads of 2012: 5. Normal Christianity by Jonathan Welton This book, more than any other, revealed to me what a normal Christian life should look like…that Jesus is the example of what our lives should look like not only in certain areas, but in all of life. …
This is simply a dialogue between a loving Father and His child who is yearning for more of Him….desiring a closer walk…..longing for higher planes with Him. He told her it’s can be a lot like rock climbing. There’s risk…..there’s exhilaration…there’s slipping…..there’s reaching…..there’s times of certainty….there’s times of apprehension….but it’s …
2012 has been quite a year…hellos and goodbyes…..times of sorrow and times of joy…..rejection and acceptance…..mountaintops and valleys….in reality, not much different than most years, but yet….so different. Farmin’, schoolin’, and such….normal stuff filled our days. Yet in the midst of it were special times, as usual. Memories of certain …