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Humility in the Chaos! 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Our Confession Because God created me in His image: ·          I represent the dignity of God ·          I represent the Holiness of God ·          I represent the divine righteousness of God ·          I am appointed steward of His Kingdom ·          I represent the rule and reign of Christ Jesus Character, Conduct, and Conversation If we are the confession we have just declared, then we must think, behave and converse in a manner that reflects the image of God. Spiritual maturity is about attaining the full stature of Christ! To be the image of God is to reflect the very nature of God. Consider the following verses: Eph 4:11-13 It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,   12 to equip the saints for the work of mi
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Origins of Equality Part 2 of Breaking Down the Barriers of Hierarchy                  The next pages about our origins cannot be overlooked. This section is essential reading for every woman.  God created male and female equal. The implications of this equality are staggering in light of the creation narrative.  As a woman, have you wondered why God’s creative approach used to form a female was different from the male? If God created males from the dust, why did God not create female in the same way, creating her of the earth? Did God spend less creative energy in the forming, shaping female when God used the flesh of male?  Does using the flesh of male, make female subordinate to male? These questions and many others are reflective of our ignorance of the creation narrative. Some of these questions will be addressed as a part of the overall discussion in this book. Yet, we will find ourselves still with many unanswered questions. I leave the balance of those questions to
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Breaking down the Barriers of Hierarchy

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The issue of biblical equality for women is more than a “hot button” issue.  It is not something that will quietly pass away. In America, more women are spiritually more engaged than men. [1] The future of discipleship and ministry leadership will find more and more women at the core of these activities. Already in the modern era [2] and through the entire contemporary era, the issue of biblical gender equality can be likened to waves constantly crashing against the shores of Christianity and its theology. [3] The issue of biblical equality for women is much more than just an issue of secular rights or something of politics or feminism. To equate the hunger of the sisters of Christ Jesus to serve the King in His Kingdom as akin to secularism is to mock and grieve the stirring of the Holy Spirit in the lives of our beloved sisters. In the same way that Apostle Paul was compelled, so are many of the sisters of Christ.  Paul confessed: 1 Cor 9:16-18 For necessity is laid u
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Shame, the Bain of Christian Living

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Shame is a powerful emotional response to our sense of personal guilt. There is a sense of shame when we realize our choices, behaviors, aspects of our lives are unholy in the presence of our most Holy God. Today, I speak of profound shame, a shame born of a maturing awareness of the Holiness of God. There have been times in my life when I give serious thought to the whole of life I find pockets of deep embarrassment regarding things I have done or things left undone. Often when looking backward, looking to my past, I still feel deep shame. The older I become, the more I discover of the beauty of the Holiness of God, I find myself captured in my shame. As a Christian, I am very confident that God has forgiven me of every iniquity in my life; there is not a single sin that God has not, is not or will not forgive. I am confident in God's forgiveness for my hope is in the merciful Christ as expressed in the crucifixion of Jesus for me. And while I am confident, I find mysel
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God Turns Up In All the Wrong Places at Christmas It’s easy to miss how strange God’s ‘perfect timing’ is in the nativity story. KRISH KANDIAH | DECEMBER 20, 2017 My notes: I was deeply moved when I read this excerpt published in Christianity Today.  I want to share this excerpt with as many people I know especially to day December 25, 2017. Krish Kandiah has reminded me of the essential of Christmas...I mmanuel , God with us... This essay is adapted from his latest book,  God Is Stranger: Finding God in Unexpected Places  (InterVarsity Press). R ecently, at a Christian men’s breakfast that I wasn’t excited about attending, I was surprised to make an unlikely friend in an elderly man named John. At the age of seven, John had been evacuated on the Kinder transport program just before the Holocaust began in Germany. John’s parents were among the 6 million people living in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught on the wrong side of Hitler’s fanaticism. Seventy-six ye
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