Tag: Jesus Christ
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The Cheese Stands Alone
When I was little, I used to sing this nursery rhyme called “The farmer in the dell”. In the song, everything gets taken by the thing that came before it…until you get to the end. At the end, we sang: “The cheese stands alone.” The mouse took the cheese, but there’s nothing for the cheese […]
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Early Morning Stress Stream
I’ve been writing almost every day to give my mind something to do. I’ve spent the last 5-6 years working on my emotional intelligence, recognizing (or rather having friends and mentors alike point out) that I do not engage my emotions as a normal person of my age should. I’m real good at shoving things […]
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Sow Peace; Reap Righteousness
I sow peace. So I can reap peace. I’d rather apologize to someone who is wrong than win a fight. I’d rather give you what you want than fight for my own selfish gains. I’d rather watch, pray, and give you a WIDE BERTH and a LONG-HANDLED SPOON than try to get you to see […]
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Discipline: A Post About Discipleship
Before reading, click on the first pic then #swipeleft⬅️ Ahem. Follow along. When Christ was finna head on out, He said, “Make disciples of all the nations and teach them to obey all the things I taught you” (Matthew 28:19-20, paraphrased). A disciple is first a learner, who through deep study and questioning and time […]
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This ain’t the time to turn back now.
One time, I found myself driving around Chicago on a mission not my own. As I drove into the city, I found myself both happy and heavy—excited to be back in a place where I felt most comfortable and happy as an adult, yet heavier and sadder as I passed landmarks that I’d not seen […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 7: IMANI
True believers understand that salvation is a deed-less experience, that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. That we find redemption in receiving the forgiveness purchased by the blood shed on the cross. But there IS another step thereafter. That same faith, when fully formed through the hearing of the word, produces […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 6: KUUMBA
The creative mind of God is immeasurable—something that mankind has spent its existence investigating in an ongoing attempt to extricate the source and replicate the perfection thereof. From DNA strands and quarks, to particle accelerators and space missions, to the Tower of Babel and astrology and the so-called ascended masters, we’ve been trying to reproduce […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 1: UMOJA
We have such misguided ideas about what unity is, what it looks like, how it works. Unity comes from the idea of a unit, and units have many moving parts—not the exact same parts, but many different equally important parts that allow a thing to work effectively. A successful civilization works because there are many […]
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Tis the season for FORGIVENESS
God has had me in a season of #forgiveness. I have been reliving some very ugly experiences—things that people who “love” me said and did without apologies or even remorse (like they believe they are right to this day), how I ended up where I ended up so far from home and dreams, the shame […]
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You got me going in circles
Last night, I finally dreamed again–not the regular dreams that people get that we usually don’t remember. No, I saw a dream from God. And this is the part where you leave if you don’t believe in God. Or don’t. Cuz maybe you need to believe in God. Anyway. When I was little, it happened […]
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