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Emerging as God’s Children 9: You Are My Hiding Place

You are my hiding place
You always fill my heart
With songs of deliverance
Whenever I am afraid
I will trust in You
I will trust in You
Let the weak say I am strong
In the strength of the Lord
I will trust in You
An oldie but goodie. It’d been on my mind a lot the past couple of days. Here’s a […]

Emerging as God’s Children 8: Hidden with Christ

“And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” — Genesis 2:25
“For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” — Colossians 3:3-4
Lately, I’ve been pondering on the idea of being […]

Emerging as God’s Children 7: Reboot

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39

“But he said to me, ‘My grace […]

Emerging as God’s Children 6: Fog

Modern life is in many ways a kind of spiritual fog. We blanket ourselves in technology and we wrap ourselves with fantasy, but in reality we are living like slaves rather than kings.
We think we are masters of our fate because we can choose to buy a 42″ HDTV rather than a 37″. We think […]

Emerging as God’s Children 5: Revenge

I’m behind the times when it comes to the hit TV show Lost. I’m making my way through Season 1 via iTunes, and I just finished an episode where one of the characters seeks out another for revenge — to kill that person because of a perceived culpability in the death of a loved one. […]

Emerging as God’s Children 4: Reform through Adoption

I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel, but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. For this perhaps is […]

Emerging as God’s Children 3: Abide

Ooo boy. This week has shaped up to be a real doozy. To be honest, the last thing I can imagine doing today is writing something meaningful from a spiritual perspective because I’m currently trying to get my own act together!
So I’ll steal something that someone else talked about that has been worming its way […]

Emerging as God’s Children 2: From Slaves to Sons

Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus— I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.

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Emerging as God’s Children 1: The Cry

Welcome to the first installment of Emerging as God’s Children! This is the beginning of an ongoing series that will last for the foreseeable future. Every Tuesday, I will post a short essay that attempts to express my desire to see Christians (myself included) come into the full knowledge and realization of the truth. What […]