Posts Tagged ‘2025’
Day 008: What is a Reliable Pattern of Life Transformation?
…the greatest need you and I have—the greatest need of collective humanity—is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place within us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. [Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, 14]
Read MoreDay 007: What is The Heart and Mind?
Today, we look a little closer at the Heart and the Mind. Often, people are confused about the “psychology” – the teaching about our “inner selves” – of the Bible. We are going to try and clarify some of the key ideas that help us understand what is going on within ourselves – in our…
Read MoreDay 006: How Are We Designed?
Yesterday we introduced an illustration using circles to represent who we are as humans created in the image of God. Today we are going to introduce a few more key ideas that we will develop as we go along. What does it mean that we were created in the “Image” and “Likeness” of the Lord…
Read MoreDay 005: Learning Our Basic Tools
The week, we get to work. As with any creative project, the first thing we need to do is get to know our tools and how to use them. We are going to begin with two basic “tools” that we will be applying throughout this whole study: 1) a way to visualize who we are…
Read MoreDay 004: Why MilktoMeat?
Christianity is built on the work and teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life…” This one statement is where we get the titles for the three phases of our MilktoMeat study: Discovering The Way, Walking in the The Truth, Living The Life.…
Read MoreDay 003: What is Jesus Calling Us To?
As we have already discussed briefly, Jesus is calling us into His Kingdom. When that Kingdom comes in full, everything will be set right, all things will be healed, all things will be made new. But here is the catch: the only people who will be able to live joyously in this Kingdom are those…
Read MoreDay 002: Why Jesus is Central to All Things?
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…
Read MoreDay 001: Beginning with the End in Sight
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…
Read MoreGrow in the Grace and Knowledge of Jesus
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…
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