What does the resurrection of Christ really mean for us? What does it reveal about the heart and mind of God? And what real differences can the miracle of the resurrection make in your life today?
Discover answers to those and other questions as you examine God’s Word with this companion study guide to the book Experiencing the Resurrection by Henry Blackaby and Melvin Blackaby.
Packed with practical notes, advice, and questions for reflection, this highly interactive guide—ideal for small group or individual use—shows you how to witness Christ’s resurrection in and through your life. Each chapter of the book is explored in a flexible one-week format with “life change objectives” that arise from applying the truth for each day to your life.
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"Although teachers must plan classes diligently--indeed genius may be diligence--the teaching life is messy. You don't sit in a study surrounded by leather-bound books, titles stamped on their spine in gilt. You sit in a classroom, students and their lives chaotic about you, emotions slipping loose like pages from paperbacks...Beware of neatening vitality out of life and students. In fact, studied or planned clutter should fill the schoolroom: posters, mobiles, pictures, plants, knickknacks, and memorabilia of all sorts."
--Sam Pickering, Letters to a Teacher
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sometimes you have to get apprehended before you can be understood
You can see some portraits of the community in this video.
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Easter trip planning
book reviews
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gym time
hydration
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riding
writing
A lot of the roads here in NOLA don't have paint lines, or the paint lines come and go, so sometimes you're really guessing as to whether you're in the right place or whether you're even in a lane at all. Playing the guess which lane you're in game in the rain or the dark is even more fun. You know the road is there because you're on it, but you're not sure if you're in the right place and sometimes you feel stupid for being slightly afraid.
You also know you're on the road because it's likely to be pretty bumpy.
It's all kind of like me and God. I know the road is there, mostly because it's pretty bumpy and full of NOLA holes. But I have a really hard time figuring out if I'm in the right lane.
Closer Than Your Skin is the highly personal story of Susan D. Hill. She writes about her struggles and her needs and her failures. And her almost-failures, which includes her marriage. She writes about how we need God and how God wants us and how he doesn't want to date us for forever.
"Something inside me longed for a greater reality. If a relationship with God was really more than just an expression, I wanted to experience it. After all, as author Mike Mason reasoned, we're talking about a God who wasn't satisfied to remain alone in heaven. He wanted to mingle with us. So he entered the world as a man and joined the common life of his people. Deep inside I felt God had more to give us than church services, Bible knowledge, and programs for the poor. I believed he was actually offering himself."
But you know, we don't always know that we need him. Some of us get tied up by the things we are supposed to do, or we are repelled by those who could be showing us part of what God is like.
"I wondered if God was disappointed with me, because I wasn't living up to some indefinable standard of a good Christian life. God required more than I bargained for, and most of it was in the fine print. I felt trapped.
Religiosity was the counterfeit of all I had hoped for, like owning a state-of-the-art kitchen, studying recipe books, and cooking fantastic meals--but never eating. The people in its grip are starving to death and don't know why."
While I'm often skeptical when people say or write, "God told me this," Hill does it with an honesty that makes those stories believable. She talks about near misses (a car accident), near losses (her marriage), times when God answered when she prayed for healing (physical and emotional/spiritual), and times when she prayed for lost things (the diamond from her engagement ring). Hill has no doubt that she's in the right lane, and will prove it with the picture of a beach in a magazine she randomly picks up and the fact that she let her son set up her new computer and he chose a beach scene as her desktop image.
"God is not somewhere across the universe whirling in space. Rather, he's here, right now, closer than your skin."