Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all. – 1 Timothy 4:15 When Michelangelo was asked how he managed to turn a block of marble stone into a beautiful masterpiece sculpture of King David, his response was apparently 14 simple words: “It’s easy. You just chip away …
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Stay connected
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. – John 15:5 Life flows through connection. As an aside, death – at its core – is simply a form of disconnection: a flower plucked the …
On earth as it is in heaven
Let your kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. – Matthew 6:10 Or: on screen as it is in the film script. Or: on the ground as it is in the architect’s blueprint. In other words, none of this starts with you. In fact, all the things you …
The heart of wisdom
Teach us the number of our days that we may enter the heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12 Kevin Kelly stumbled upon it whilst sleeping on the spot where Jesus was crucified, and he took on the assignment of living the next six months as if he was going to die. Linford Detweiler scribbled it down in a letter …
Come up higher
After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said: “Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things.” – Revelation 4:1 In order to see further, you’ve got to find a …
Refuge, strength, help, trouble
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. – Psalm 46:1 “Lord, open his eyes that he might see.” That was the cry of Elisha when his servant despaired at the sight of the Syrian army encompassed about them. It’s also the cry of Wisdom in the streets hoping you notice …
The power of thank you
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. – 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Someone right now is desperately praying and seeking for that thing you’re grumbling and complaining about. Your house is too small…they’re homeless sleeping on the street. Your car keeps breaking down…they’re walking everywhere in …
Cause of love
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. – Ephesians 5:31 Cause. A person or thing that gives rise to an action, phenomenon, or condition. Cause. Reasonable grounds for doing, thinking, or feeling something. Cause. A principle, aim, …
Too busy to think
We tear down arguments, and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. – 2 Corinthians 10:5 The world is after your mind. Every day, companies pour billions of dollars into grabbing your attention and accessing your mind through words, sounds and images…with …
Escaping corruption
“…that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” – 2 Peter 1:4 In the beginning was the Word, and in the end is the Word. But in between the beginning and end was a wrinkle in which the expressions and definitions …