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The final of my entries on this topic involves others. I am not the Body of Christ, you aren’t, you and your four friends aren’t, we all are the body of Christ. This is so unique to Christianity, that we are dependant upon one another in such a unique way. Of all the things that have pained me the most (I’m in the process of raising a support network to go over seas for the next year) through this process is talking to people not embracing their roll in the body of Christ, and ignoring their responsibilities to their First love. This trust, is above and beyond the hardest for me to even desire to have. But in my longing to be a vassal for Christ it’s been reveled as an attribute of Christ that I must let Him work in and through me.
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Topic 2/3 (read the first)

How weird a topic, faith in yourself. Yes I am serious, and yes this is something that is not mentioned or often talked about. It’s over looked and thus, I believe, has caused a handful of problems within the church and the body of Christ has a whole. First lets look at some scripture to show that this is truly an authentic and genuine concern of Christ for our well being. (more…)

When you hear Christians talk of their faith this is what they most commonly mean, actually it may be the only type of faith that had ever crossed their mind until recently. It means to believe in God, to have placed your trust in him, to have faith in the Father, Holy Spirit, and Christ… Of all three of these entries this is the one I’m having the hardest time to give insight to and actually waited till the end to write it (but you still have to wait for the next two). (more…)

Our lives are spent accomplishing everything from project, compiling a great work of historical value, loving others, bringing peace, causing war, attaining friends, knowledge, wealth, and a number of others simply limited by our imagination. It seems only natural to be excited about that which we’ve done before, or are on the verge of completion. I can think of a number of things that I’m excited about from my past; skiing in particular. What are we to do, to boast of, to be excited about, to tell to others?
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“Can the Ethiopian Change his skin
or the leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
who are accustomed to doing evil.”
-Jeremiah 13:23

Why turn from going against the Lord now? The longer you wait the harder it will be, and eventually you will reach the point of the people of Judah being unable to genuinely turn towards God and be lost from His grace. Let pride speak to your heart and tell you that you are unique, let truth tell you that God killed and displaced his chosen people for reaching a point past repentance. In His eyes there are no excuses (what they were taught by their leaders/parents) just the reality of his love and what it will take to bring His people back into an intimate relationship with Himself.

For the past several months there has been an on going struggle that has been gripping me. Tonight I finally started to realize what it truly was I am having such a hard time over. What to be? It seems like such a basic question, one we even ask to elementary students (thought their answers will almost inevitably change). For me it has been everything from astronaut to paleontologist, Film writer/producer/director to missionary and they are all missing one thing from their answer. Who for, and it is of the utmost importance that this question should preface everything we look for and desire in our future.

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Recently I’ve been reading a lot of the old testament while working through a book on the prophets by the renowned Jewish scholar Abraham Heschel called “The Prophets” as well as continuing to work on my prayer life and reading a short devo book by Andrew Murray titled “Absolute Surrender” and there have been some startling conclusions I’ve drawn. Let my point out a few things, I haven’t had a lot of time to look deeply into this, so there will more then likely be more in the future.

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