Formation – Page 5 – Christ our Holy Way

Patient for Growth

When I review the history of how my own views

April 18, 2021|Categories: Devotionals, Formation, Growth, Love, Patience, Peace|Tags: Arrogance, Patient for Growth, Self-Righteousness, Understanding|

Curing Prejudice

Peter was sent in an amazing step-by-step way to preach

April 17, 2021|Categories: Devotionals, Evangelism, Formation, Gospel, Growth, Pentecost, Sanctification, Spirit|Tags: Baptism of the Spirit, Curing Prejudice, Emotions, Gentiles, Mind, Multi-language, Racism, Universal gospel, Will|

The Experience of God

God can be experienced. These encounters may come in transforming

April 17, 2021|Categories: Devotionals, Father, Formation, Growth, Sorrow|Tags: Daily Walk, Disappointment, Grief, Sanctuary, Silence, The Experience of God|

Our Limitations

The understanding of a child is not the same as

March 20, 2021|Categories: Christ, Devotionals, Discipline, Encouragement, Father, Formation, Growth, Patience, Saints|Tags: Catechumen, Comprehension, Our Limitations, Saint, Theologian|

On Being Human

The inhumanity of humans to other humans cuts away not

March 18, 2021|Categories: Creation, Devotionals, Divine Likeness, Formation|Tags: Bigotry, Civilization, Human dignity, Inhumanity, On Being Human, Racism|

Your Heart

Jesus is the Great Physician who specializes in heart surgery.

March 14, 2021|Categories: Christ, Devotionals, Formation, Heart, Spirit|Tags: Great Physician, Your Heart|

The Fellowship of Pain

When you are dealing with the stress and pain of

March 10, 2021|Categories: Baptism, Christ, Christlikeness, Devotionals, Fellowship, Formation, Growth, Incarnation, Sanctification, Suffering|Tags: Identify with Christ, Mystic union, Solidarity with Christ, Suffering Servant, The Fellowship of Pain|

It is a Journey

We have not arrived yet; it is a journey. We

March 8, 2021|Categories: Christ, Devotionals, Formation, Growth, Redemption, Righteousness, Sanctification, Spirit|Tags: Goal, It is a Journey, Mentor, Transformation|

Repenting of our Pace

In this contemporary era we have adopted a pace that

March 5, 2021|Categories: Devotionals, Formation, Meditation, Repentance, Solitude|Tags: Anxiety, Chemical, Depression, Pills, Repenting of our Pace, Stillness|

Repenting of Self-sufficiency

We long for self-sufficiency and our inadequacy mocks it. We

March 3, 2021|Categories: Christ, Devotionals, Formation, Growth, Heart, Knowledge, Maturity|Tags: Inadequacy, Independence, Interdependence, Repenting of Self-sufficiency, Self-Righteousness|

Sanctifying Repentance

The goal of sanctification is Christlikeness, which is the restoration

March 1, 2021|Categories: Christ, Christlikeness, Communion, Devotionals, Divine Likeness, Formation, Growth, Holiness, Obedience, Repentance, Sanctification, Surrender|Tags: Identification with Christ, Sanctifying Repentance|

Whole Heart Seeking

We can open our empty earthen vessels in brokenness and

February 25, 2021|Categories: Devotionals, Father, Forgiveness, Formation, Growth, Humility, Spirit|Tags: Brokenness, Potter, Preoccupation, Whole Heart Seeking|

Neglected Repentance

I grew up thinking that repentance was a one-time thing

February 21, 2021|Categories: Cleansed, Confession, Devotionals, Formation, Growth, Repentance, Spirit, Word of God|Tags: Born Again, Neglected Repentance, Patterns, Traits|

Jesus and Racism (12)

We are commanded repeatedly in the Scripture to “Love one

February 13, 2021|Categories: Atonement, Christ, Christlikeness, Devotionals, Formation, God's Word, Growth, Heart, Love, Obedience, Sanctification|Tags: Dallas Willard, Ethnic Groups, Jesus and Racism, Races, Sanctification, Transformation, Tribes|

Jesus and Racism (10)

We live with invisible and unexamined assumptions about other ethnic

February 11, 2021|Categories: Christ, Christlikeness, Devotionals, Formation, Growth|Tags: Assumptions, Attitudes, Jesus and Racism (10), Prejudices|