Naming, Claiming, and Proclaiming

the Abundant Life

Who am I? Good question. Who am I, really?
A very good question, a soul-searching question.

I am in search of The Abundant Life.
Why  choose the abundant life? What is it? And where may it be found?

Join me in my journey to The Abundant Life.

Why desire it?    What is it?   Where is it?

Thought For an abundant day

Understand What Jesus Is Saying

How easy it is to misunderstand Christ. I can read His words with confidence and then, with my very next thought, react to the world around me as if I never heard Him in the first place.

It happens time and again with me, just as it did with His disciples.

In Mark 4, after delivering four very powerful messages (the parables of the sower, the growing seed, the mustard seed, and the lamp on a stand), Jesus invites His disciples to get into a boat and go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. As they are crossing, a storm of epic proportions causes even these seasoned fishermen to fear for their lives. Jesus, however, remained asleep in the boat. The disciples woke Jesus and in desperation cried, ““Teacher, don’t you even care that we are all about to drown?” Jesus got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. (Mark 4:38-39).

What did Jesus say and what do we think he said? Greg Laurie expresses it this way in Sailing Through The Storm:

Jesus was saying, in effect, “Boys, you haven’t learned anything. I said, ‘Let’s cross over to the other side.’ I didn’t say, ‘Let’s go to the middle of the Sea of Galilee and drown.’ ”

Let’s hear the words of Jesus with the clarity of who He is and not what the world would cause us to believe.

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my journey begins daily

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I begin each day with short reflections based on Study, Prayer, and a commitment to Action (my Bible SPA).

What amazes me is the ease, breadth and depth of these thoughts that can only come from the Holy Spirit. I conclude each reflection with a mention of God’s altar because it is at God’s altar where blessings are bestowed, gratitude is offered, and wholeness is made. And God’s altar may be found anywhere and everywhere, and especially in my heart.

Trust At All Times

Trust At All Times

Today I will ponder the question, “Will I trust Christ in the valley as strongly as I do on the mountaintop?” Will I maintain my faith when things are “neither beautiful nor poetic nor thrilling”? (Chambers Utmost October 2) The answer is “with God’s help.” Mark...

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Replace My “If” With “You Can”

Replace My “If” With “You Can”

Today I will replace my feeble “If You can” with a confident “according to Thy will,” emboldened by the belief that it is not how one prays but the One who hears the prayer that is the power behind prayer. Mark 9:22-23 "But if you can do anything, take pity on us...

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Accept Suffering For Christ’s Sake

Accept Suffering For Christ’s Sake

Today I will accept my responsibility to “suffer” for the sake of the Gospel (and to learn what that means and entails) and for the power to proclaim and live the Gospel in the manner Christ has fashioned me for. I know this will be difficult. One example of suffering...

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Short Provocative Thoughts

People’s Trickery

Beware false voices.  Do not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. "We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful...