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"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead..." Spirituality wears many disguises. It’s best one is “religion.” Pharisees are the same yesterday, today, and forever. They can imitate spiritual depth with the best of them. They appear to doggedly press into the heart of things, when they are actually just working to …
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“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.” Paul bursts out in these few verses to the Philippians with talk about attaining, obtaining, pressing on, taking hold, and straining toward …
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As you can see, I’ve just published a new book called Reaching Rahab and I need your help to get the word out. I wrote it for an audience to include, but exceed, my own immediate sphere of friends and family in order to inspire Christians of all types to influence others toward Jesus. …
“…becoming like him in his death” You can't be resurrected without dying first. Death comes before resurrection. The order cannot be reversed. New life only comes after dying to the old life. If you want to know the power of Jesus’ resurrection you have to become like him in his death. It’s only those who …
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings” So, the experience of resurrection, that we spoke about in the last post, comes with a price, a huge price. It’s called the cross. Remember how Jesus beckoned us to take up our own cross and follow …
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