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I love the season of Christmas. It is a wonderful reminder of how far God is willing to go to demonstrate his love for us. It is also a reminder of how he can use the most marginal people of society to impact the entire world. Just think of all of the characters that show…

How far does sharing go in community? Community draws us to share all that we have to care for the needs of others. Community leads to our needs being met.  We are not talking about unhealthy, narcissistic needs, but genuine human needs.  When a group of people gathers together with the same servant attitude that places others…

How do we know what love is?  How can we recognize right passion?  John tells us in this short letter that he has written.  “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”  (1 John 3:16) Love and…

The writer of Deuteronomy encourages us to impress the ways of God upon the hearts of our children.  It says that we should talk about God’s ways when we are at home or on the road.  Even to the point of hanging them on our doorframes.  Think about that for a minute.  Whether we are…

To bring the act of creating humanity to completion (and thus taking care of the “It is not good…”), God creates Eve.  Before God does this though, he demonstrates that there is nothing else in all of creation that will fill the need for relationship like another human.  Adam could not find completion in any…

One of God’s great acts of passion was the creation of the world.  Genesis 1 records for us the great care and creativity that God put into bringing all that exists together.  In Genesis 2, the focus turns from the world in general to humanity in particular.  As we watch the creative dance unfold before us,…

It can be easy to confuse passion for God and passion for religious things.  The church at Ephesus ran into this problem.  If you read the first three verses of chapter two, it seems to describe the model Christians: hard-working, perseverance, defending the truth, and enduring hardships.  All these are admirable traits.  We would feel…

If the world cannot seduce our passions away from God, it will attempt to distract our passions with busyness.  It is a much more subtle tactic.  We don’t really view that we are doing anything wrong.  As a matter of fact, we convince ourselves that we are being good, responsible people. Now, there is nothing…

The world constantly begs to be the focus of our passions.  And before we become a passionate Jesus-follower, it usually succeeds at getting our attention.  How do our passions look different when we become a follower of Jesus and a seeker of the heart of God?  Paul gives us a pretty good idea in his…