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Stand on my shoulders

Stand on my shoulders
It must be the greatest satisfaction of a teacher to say, I have taught you what I know, now go study with this other teacher. Or, like the rabbis, go make students of your own. The student that surpasses the teacher is a precious gem to the teacher. Can you imagine training Yo-Yo Ma, the…
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Remember Not

Remember Not
God does not forget. The Biblical idea of God remembering is that He takes action and intervenes in a situation. It reflects His movement. So even as we plead with God to remember us favorably, it occurred to me in reading Psalm 25 that the opposite is also true. David cries out for God not…
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He Calls You: Beloved (continued)

He Calls You: Beloved (continued)
This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:10 God loved us from the beginning and His love is proven in His suffering. His love is not a reaction but an action. He sent His Love first.…
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He calls you: Beloved

He calls you: Beloved
We often want to define ourselves, or assign our worth, by what we do. People will love me if I can accomplish this or maybe if I perform that. To self-identify this way is disastrous because we will never measure all the way up. Our true worth lies in our relationship with God. He calls…
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