It’s one thing to feel remorse. It’s another thing to wallow in regret.

from The Human Condition, Spiritual Formation series
As we mature in Christ, we cease living out of ego and begin living into new creation and new identity. As we grow into the image of Christ, the hope and joy of the resurrection will manifest in our lives as an upward cycle carrying us toward reconciliation and restoration.
from Maturing in Christ, Spiritual Formation series
Here is God’s intended design: You are royalty with dominion. And you were designed to co-create. You may not literally be an artisan or a creator but you are cultivating something according to God’s purposes. We’ve been commissioned to image God as we fulfill this vocation to mediate God’s rule on earth.
from The Human Condition, Spiritual Formation series
God’s kingdom is a kingdom in which love and justice and truth and life and holiness and peace reign unhindered.
from The Banquet in the Coming Kingdom, The Coming Reign of God series
It’s one thing to feel remorse. It’s another thing to wallow in regret.
In order to see people as God sees them, we may need the Vine-grower to prune the branch of cynicism.
What would it look like to be satisfied in God?
Surely, God wants us to be mindful of unrealistic expectations we have—both of ourselves and of others.
God wants to prune both pride and despair—two extremes that fail to capture our God-given identity
Today, we explore what it might be like to shed an adult perspective in favor of childlike faith.
Some of us carry negativity with us everyone where we go. It’s time for God to prune that habit.
We live in a distracted age. God surely wants to prune us of some of that distraction.
One of the things to be pruned: our desire not to be pruned.
Today, we ask ourselves this: are we false in our presentation of ourselves to God, others, and our own self?
Today’s is a shorty … but a goody.
Today’s devotion draws our attention to a false version of the Gospel: attempts to earn favor.
“Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops.”
Proverbs 3:9
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