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“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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“… to know the power of his resurrection…” “Jesus insisted that people could not live at the circumference unless they were alive at the center. The modern attempt is to have quantity of life at the circumference regardless of quality of life at the center. Jesus knew this would end in futility and cynicism and …
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Good news below... But first... “I want to know Christ… All of us who are mature should take such a view of things.” I want to know Christ––this from the man who, along with his eleven colleagues, probably knew Jesus better than anyone in their generation! Evidently, there’s something more to knowing him than just …
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I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold …
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