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Name: Daryl
Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 8/4/1956
Gender: Male
Interests: God, family, music, friends, going to movies with my kids and their friends, and the Kingdom of God
Expertise: clarinet, Mozart
Occupation: Artist
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7/22/2005
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| Congratulations to
Sarah Welch!!!!!!!!!!
She is on her way to being the Surgeon General of the United States!! | | |
| I was riding to Dallas Friday evening with a good friend of mine who goes to Wellspring church (which is pastored by Jack Deere). My friend put in a CD to play me some of the message from last Sunday morning. Dr. Deere was teaching on Genises, talking about the fall, and making the point that the fall is when the experience of shame hit the human race. And that apart from Christ, all people deal with shame one of two ways - they either cover it with rebellion, or they become a perfectionist, believing that their perfection will eventually make the feeling go away.
For me, it was as if God was punctuating for me what I wrote about on my last entry. Paul's message in Galatians is that we need to die both to sin (rebellion) and the the law (perfectionism). Jesus purchased our freedom from both! We have the privelige now of no longer having to be self-conscious (either of our sinfulness or our self-righteousness, both which are the result of the fall), but instead becoming God conscious (conscious of Him, his goodness, his mercy, his forgiveness, his love for us, etc). What a relief! I no longer have to think about me......
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| A quick thought from Galatians:
Living as slave to sin OR living in slavish obedience to the law are both equally wrong – it is two sides of the same coin – either way it puts the focus on you (either through the self-indulgence of sin or the self-righteousness of perfectionism and legalism) – and you miss relationship to Him – which is all that really matters. This cuts you off from receiving love from Him and giving it to others. When you’re thinking primarily about you, you’re unable to love.
More later.
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| Well, hello everybody. Long time since I updated! Not much to say tonight - just to let everyone know I'm going to make an effort to do better at Xanga. Has anyone out there read and thought much about the book of Galatians? I've been in it alot lately; I'll try to share some things in the coming entries that I find pretty amazing about that book.
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking in BCS Chapet last week. More later.
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| 'All that matters is trust.' Here is another interesting aspect of the life of one who chooses to walk by faith and not by sight. The guy that is considered the Father of 'trust' or faith is Abraham. By the time his son, Isaac, was born, he and his wife Sarah were long past the age of having children. Abraham tried to have a child in his own strength to fulfill a promise that God had indeed given him, but that created more problems than it solved. But when the God thing happened in his life, when Isaac was born, he had come to the end of his natural strength to pull it off, and it was a total God thing. So here's the interesting aspect: when the God thing happens in our lives, it is often past the the time considered possible or appropriate by the society around us. And during that time, simple trust or childlike faith is essential to see one through. God loves it when this happens - he sees in us the image if his Son, who says "unless you have the faith of a child, you will not be able to see the kingdom of heaven." | | |
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