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Elijah’s Mission

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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Plans

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

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

“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?

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

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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The Holy Spirit and His Gifts

I haven’t posted in a full month… “clear­ing my plate” I know of life with­out the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. I can’t think of liv­ing with­out Him now. With­out his pres­ence, with­out his encour­age­ment when I’m down on myself, when I feel inse­cure (The Great I AM has me in His hands, AMEN!), or his rebuke [...]
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True Religion

John preached a immer­sion of repentance/reformation/change-your-life/stop-sinning-and-live-right/ for the for­give­ness of sin. Jesus said that “… repen­tance and for­give­ness of sins should be pro­claimed in his name to all nations, begin­ning from Jerusalem.” It takes both. Bet­ter is open rebuke than hid­den love… If any­one thinks he is reli­gious, but doesn’t even con­trol his own mouth and deceives his [...]
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In light of the season

I just wanted to share my med­i­ta­tion the last week or so, from Philip­pi­ans 2:1–11: So if there is any encour­age­ment in Christ, any com­fort from love, any par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Spirit, any affec­tion and sym­pa­thy, com­plete my joy by being of the same mind, hav­ing the same love, being in full accord and of one [...]
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Pray for workers in the harvest field

Do it. Now I’m start­ing to see how seri­ous Jesus was about this:  When he saw the crowds, he had com­pas­sion on them, because they were harassed and help­less, like sheep with­out a shep­herd. Then he said to his dis­ci­ples, “The har­vest is plen­ti­ful but the work­ers are few. Ask the Lord of the har­vest, there­fore, to [...]
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