As we move through these readings together, you will see that we are often discussing truths related to our PAST and also our FUTURE. Understanding the PAST helps us to get our bearings in terms of where we have come from. Looking to the FUTURE helps to see where we are going. From this Past>Future perspective we are able to understand our present. What we will discover is that Jesus is at the beginning of things and He is at the end of things. Knowing Him is vitally important to understanding what life is really about.
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The Search for Meaning
“Our greatest desire, greater even than the desire for happiness,
is that our lives mean something.”
Daniel Taylor, Tell Me A Story
If you study the history of humanity, you cannot miss seeing our restless, unending, search for meaning in life. In order to make sense of life, we all must find the answers to three foundational questions: Where did I come from? Why am I here on earth? Where am I going? This search for meaning drives scientists to probe earth and sky looking for answers, while philosophers formulate complex systems of thought to explain our origin, our purpose, and our destiny. Everyone wants to know the truth. But what is The Truth regarding our origin, our existence, our purpose, and very importantly, our ultimate destination?
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CHRIST we proclaim,
warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom,
so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Colossians 1:28
If you have never been through a focused discipleship and spiritual growth study, now is a great time to start! Beginning Monday February 3, 2025 we will be sharing our MilktoMeat discipleship curriculum through our blog. Each day, Monday through Thursday (a few Fridays), there will be a new reading, along with resources, designed to help you grow in the Grace and Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The year 2024, for the Tyson family, wasn’t the best of years. It was a year of stress – financial stress, emotional stress, physical stress. It’s been a year of heartbreak and sorrow where some relationships are concerned. It’s been a season of dealing with health scares and, for me, learning to manage some chronic issues (while losing 25 pounds in the process – a terrific weight loss plan that I will never, ever recommend to anyone! 😂). Add to that a “little” emergency surgery for our daughter at the beginning of her junior year, and the subsequent medical costs, and you have yourself a “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad” year.
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Today is the day that we remember and mourn and rejoice in the events that changed everything. All of history comes to its Crux in the Cross of Jesus. As we think on these things, the words that Jesus speaks from The Cross give us insight into what He experienced and what He accomplished for us.
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On May 19th Tim Keller passed into the Lord’s presence. Almost immediately and appropriately, articles and remembrances were posted honoring his life and work, the size and scope of which cannot be denied. Just a day before, our dear brother Phil Allen also “graduated” into the Lord’s Presence on May 18th. There will be no articles written in Christianity Today about Phil. But his life is a reminder that size of service is not of first importance to the Lord. What really matters is faithfulness.
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The order and readings for the Passover celebration are called a Haggadah and it means “the telling.” Passover is a story that has been retold for thousands of years. It is a story of miraculous redemption – from slavery to freedom, from despair to hope, from the darkness to the light. The power and grace of the Lord God is the focus of this story. The timelessness of this story comes from God’s intimate relationship with His people. As He cared for the children of Israel in ancient times, He also cares for all who are His today.
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