Category Archives: Stewardship

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #25

  Text Deuteronomy 1:21 See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Deuteronomy 31:8 The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #24

  Text Numbers 20:10-12: He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.  But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #23

  Texts Genesis 1:27: Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…’  So God made mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them.  Male and female he created them. Romans 8:29: For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. Ephesians 2:10: For we are God’s .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #22

  Text Jeremiah 1:4-5: The word of the Lord came to me, saying “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Psalm 139:13-15: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  My frame was .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #21

  Text I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #14

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #14
  Text In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. Ephesians 3:12 Meditation As faithful stewards we can draw with confidence before the throne of grace. Teaching I can’t imagine a more fitting verse for us to end our second trek than Ephesians 3:12. A companion verse is Hebrews 4:16, “let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #13

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #13
  Text Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #12

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #12
  Text Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. Psalm 86:11 Meditation We are called to be one-kingdom people, which means a total reliance on God’s faithfulness. Teaching This is our third day meditating on Psalm 86:11. I have proposed that this psalm may be best read backwards, so we started with an understanding of what it meant .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #11

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #11
  Text Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. Psalm 86:11 Meditation We are called to be one-kingdom people, which means developing an undivided heart. Teaching Yesterday we looked at this Psalm and considered what it means to fear God only. I mentioned that I was most blessed by reading this Psalm backwards. For me, cultivating a holy, .

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #10

A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #10
  Text Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. Psalm 86:11 Meditation We are called to be one kingdom people, which means cultivating a holy, reverent fear of God. Teaching Psalm 86:11 carries great meaning for me. I first really focused on this verse while on a recent trip to Hong Kong. Early one morning while going through .