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What is our reconciliation with God?

By samuel | Published: August 10, 2008
Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with God. There you have it. The begin­ning of a won­der­ful study through the Bible… tak­ing as the jump-off ledge 2 Corinthi­ans 5–17-19 There­fore, if any­one is in Christ, he is a new cre­ation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has rec­on­ciled us [...]
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Elijah’s Mission

By samuel | Published: May 31, 2008
Just had a won­der­ful con­ver­sa­tion with our brother Kur­tis about the story of Eli­jah in 1 Kings 17 through 19. Fol­low­ing is a slightly cleaned-up ver­sion of his thoughts. My com­ments are right-aligned. I woke up at 5AM for who knows what rea­son, but i didnt go back to sleep. I just thought of Eli­jah and [...]
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Proverbs 31

By samuel | Published: May 1, 2008
Proverbs 31 Mindmap Spent a bit more time on this one. Give me some feed­back (do the fonts look ok??). Two parts: One on who to give strong drinks to, and a sec­ond on a hard-to-find wife.
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Proverbs 30

By samuel | Published: May 1, 2008
Mindmap of Proverbs 30 A not-so-pretty, not so orga­nized out­lin­ish Proverbs 30… And a maid­ser­vant when she sup­plants her mis­tress. -> I also think of Hagar and Sarah here. Think of how the earth has quaked because of that!
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Plans

By samuel | Published: April 19, 2008
I came across the fol­low­ing in today’s proverb: There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nev­er­the­less the LORD’s coun­sel — that will stand.1 I can only say AMEN! to that, as it brings much com­fort to my soul.  Almost any­thing is fas­ci­nat­ing to me, and thus I can quickly get wrapped up into plan­ning a project–but usu­ally [...]
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Cultivate Faithfulness

By samuel | Published: April 11, 2008
More on this farm­ing bit. Imag­ine a cow: regurgitation. Lew and I read some Psalms together on Tues­day (I worked Swing Shift that day: 3 PM to 11 PM, nice for quiet time from 7ish to 2:30!). Came across: “Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land and cul­ti­vate faith­ful­ness.” Psalm 37:3 Cul­ti­vate… Like farmers. Cul­ti­vate… I [...]
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Abundant Food

By samuel | Published: April 11, 2008
“Abun­dant food is in the fal­low ground of the poor, But it is swept away by injus­tice. ” ~Proverbs 13:23 Cur­rently I’m read­ing books about Agri­cul­ture. One is “Sepp Holzer: The Rebel Farmer”, another is “Edi­ble For­est Gar­dens: Eco­log­i­cal Vision and The­ory for Tem­per­ate Cli­mate Per­ma­cul­ture.” As you can prob­a­bly tell from the titles, the first is [...]
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Interest or Identification?

By samuel | Published: March 21, 2008
Today as my work day wound day I kept on look­ing at my watch. I wanted to leave by 5… but things kept on pop­ping up, which (gosh) delayed me to 5:15 (oh the horror!) In the mid­dle of all this I started to feel that fran­tic feel­ing, you know, the kind that comes from self-entitlement. [...]
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Mind renovation

By samuel | Published: March 13, 2008
This is a prettty amaz­ing thing: “Don’t be con­formed to this world, but be trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2) I like it when God speaks. One idea and my mind changes. It is renewed. He ACTUALLY ren­o­vates it. As one comes into a room and starts arrang­ing, clean­ing, dust­ing, fix­ing bro­ken dry­wall, [...]
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Psalm doodles

By samuel | Published: March 2, 2008
Last cou­ple of days I’ve been draw­ing VERY quick doo­dles (we’re talk­ing stick fig­ures here) of the Psalms I read. I must be a visual per­son, because I can remem­ber them now… maybe sim­ply tak­ing the time to visu­al­ize while read­ing? does the trick This morn­ing I found a delight­ful site which has a [...]
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