God dances with the outcast.
Steven JamesTag: inspirational god hope outcast
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.
Steven JamesTag: paradox freedom god jesus cruelty chain
Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)
Steven JamesTag: passion god change free creativity risk jesus transform
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.
Steven JamesTag: god spiritual death hope jesus cross easter
Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.
Steven JamesFollow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.
Steven JamesTag: faith conclusions
Patrick: How do you know so much about dating? You're a teenage girl.
Tess: Because I'm a teenage girl.
Tag: generation-gaps understanding-women
I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my chains!
Free my spirit!
Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul
with heaven dipped ink
Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.
Steven JamesTag: spiritual-insight
Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.
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