Insights and Gleanings as I follow Christ
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Daily Renewal is Exchange, not Addition
The language most Christians use to describe spiritual growth is the language of addition. We add prayer to our schedule. We add Scripture to our habits. We add service to our week. We accumulate spiritual disciplines like tools in a kit, and we define growth by the size of the collection. The problem is that…
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Your Attention Provides Your Direction
There is a principle embedded in the human soul that neuroscience has confirmed but Scripture announced long before: you become what you behold. Extended, attentive contemplation of anything shapes the mind, the desires, and eventually the life around its object. This is why advertising works, why pornography destroys, why extended meditation on grievances produces bitterness,…
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Daily Renewal – Poor In Spirit
Almost everything we have been taught about success runs directly counter to the first Beatitude. We are formed by a world that rewards competence, penalizes vulnerability, and treats need as weakness. We bring these instincts into the spiritual life and produce the same result: a Christianity of performance, a faith in which the strong survive…