A Son Finds His Way Home
Imagine, if you will, a child drawing in the sand. The mother has come to the fruit-stand on theoutskirts of the city, because they always have the freshest fruits. She tells little Ryan not to wander off as she hands picks their fruit supply for the week. Ryan is already far too consumed in the wonders of dirt-calligraphy to go anywhere. Writing in one continuous line, with monk-like focus Ryan draws out a phrase or thought within himself that is crying out to be expressed. After several toilsome minutes of dirt-calligraphy, the masterpiece is finally complete. Ryan steps back for a...
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I’ve heard that the human mind can be compared to a room with many shelves. Imagine an individual standing in that room, and in his hands he holds some unknown projects. When projects are complete we as humans savor those projects and then file them away; but when projects are not complete, like clutter in our lives they fill our hands. When we attempt to engage in life with others, which most certainly requires our hands, all of those incomplete projects clutter our relationships. If those projects are good projects then our relationships are cluttered with goodness but if they are bad...
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City Lights is a bible study more about building health community among us so that it becomes natural to build and encourage community wherever you are. It will be about being a light, not just for yourself and those that you love but a a light for all of the communities and groups that you interact with on a regular basis. People in need of light ask those that they believe might have light; and the blind ask those that they perceive to have sight to guide them. All of us fall into darkness at times, and will have periods when out sight fails us. The body of Christ is our fail safe for such...
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Isaiah 49:6 … I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” Most of the time, when we think of the light that God gives us, we think of the intangibles: truth, direction, wisdom or answers in general. This verse from Isaiah presents light as a person; and just as if we were given a lantern, the light will only burn for us for a time. Certainly, some of the people in our lives have been lights on an oftentimes dark journey. Their faithfulness to God and to their friends and family has served as that inspiration or truth in us when our own...
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