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The land we explored devours those living in it. — Numbers 13:32Where do you get the truth? A number of years ago, I wrote an article for a business magazine. One of my sources was an attorney who asked me repeatedly if I was planning to quote him out of context. By the time I was finished interviewing him, I was afraid to quote him at all. At the time, his concern seemed strange to me. Why would I quote anyone out of context? Why would I try to skew anybody’s words?However, since then, I’ve discovered that he probably had…
Send some men to explore the land … — Numbers 13:2This is an invitation from God to see our world through eyes of faith. God wasn’t looking for His people to just see the size of the mountain; He was inviting them to measure the miracle.Are we surrounded with problems? Maybe God is inviting us to laugh along with Abraham who laughed when he discovered he would father a child at age 100. Laugh because with God nothing is impossible. Maybe God is inviting us to worship along with Gideon who snuck down to the camp of the Midianites and…
… being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. — Philippians 1:6 If you were going to make a chart of your spiritual journey, what would it look like? At what times in your life have you experienced the greatest spiritual growth?If spiritual growth were just a matter of spiritual disciplines, then the go-get-’em types would leave all the rest of us in the dust. But spiritual growth is not just a matter of setting goals and observing disciplines. We are in the…
"Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?" — Mark 4:38I’d like to focus in on the word "care." We all know the story. The storm is out of control. Jesus is asleep. The waves are swamping the boat. The disciples are terrified.Where was God’s care? In a sense, that’s an unfair question, because we have a big advantage. We are looking at this storm 2000 years later. We know that God’s care was there all along. The disciples didn’t know how to stop the storm. So they did the only thing they knew how to do, they found Jesus inside…