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Today, at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, Jeff Henderson is continuing in his series called Climate Change.  Climate is something that isn't exclusive to nature.  There are climates in your life, too, especially in the relationships you have with other people.  For these relationships to improve, perhaps you need some climate change.


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I believe that when we are born, we have as it were a sense of nothing. Absolutely everything we do is new to our internal and external senses. Every plant we touch is a new and wonderful sensation. Every sunrise, and every sunset stroke us with awe like a bucket of ice cold water poured over head on a hot and humid day. The rain was thought to be tears of God and the sky after it rained was as if the Lord had kissed the earth with refreshing love and purity.

Animals were not common place; they were fascinating and evoked a sense of reverence and wonder that sent the youthful imagination souring into a blissful overload of contemplations and ponderings. Birds were marvels and distinguished from all the rest, merely for naturally being born with the ability that one could only dream of, to fly. The vastness of an ocean, the sweet melody of the tide crashing the shore, and the sweet smell of salt water erected in youth, silence and ponderings. The taste of bread, of sugar, and of honey for the first few times in life, they tasted so amazing, and so potently delightful that words still have no place in the experience. More Here...

This week I faced my first real speed bump as a mother-to-be. I failed my glucose test, which means I might have gestational diabetes.

For some reason I took the news REALLY hard. Part of the reason is that I was so totally surprised by it. I don’t have any risk factors, I am healthy, I eat right (for the most part), I exercise, etc. And yet I failed the test, which led me to feel as though I had failed in some larger sense.

For one thing, I was afraid I had disappointed Ike. I also felt like I had somehow brought this on myself. I was wracked with guilt, and as soon as we got in the car I balled my eyes out. More Here...

Every profession, academic discipline, social group, and Harry Potter fan club has its own vocabulary or “jargon.” For example, when a friend of mine who has a Ph.D. in neuroscience talks about her discipline I wrinkle my forehead and nod knowingly, despite the fact that I don’t have a clue what she’s talking about. That’s because I know nothing about neuroscience, although I believe it has something to do with your head.

The problem with jargon is that it often comes off as pedantic or exclusionary. I think this is especially true of “Christianese.” I’ve been thinking about this lately because I’ve noticed that many of the comments on Revelife are written in Christianese. That’s ok; most of us know what these folks are talking about because we are fluent in Christianese. In fact, that’s pretty much the only language I spoke for many years. 

I’ve made a concerted effort, however, to step outside of that paradigm over the last decade or so and my ears have finally begun to hear Christianese the way someone who is not familiar with that language might hear it.

In other words, it’s started to sound pretty silly. More Here...

The topic of jealousy has been weighing on my mind lately for no reason in particular, and I feel like the only way to figure this out is to really examine and study it. And anyone who knows me knows that the best way I process things is to write them out. So here goes.

Jealousy is a generally negative emotion and is at the base of things; wrong. I get this, I understand this, and like many people, I have fought it. James 3:14-17 says “But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.”

So rather than submitting to the jealous emotions within in us we are called to seek out the wisdom of God from above so that we may be made pure. Simple enough right? More Here...