From a joy deficiency to doing cartwheels of joy

 A quote from 

The Happy Gospel  by Benjemin Dunn

One current, joy-robbing idea of Christianity is that it is little more than a new start on an old life—just a second chance. If this is true, that Christianity is simply a new beginning at the same old kind of life, what makes me think that I’m not going to make a mess of it again?

 The “old life,” our pre-Christ existence, was filled with sinfulness and the inability to choose God even if we desired to. Even if we had been given a new start, it would still be the “old life"!

 But what Christ gives us is a “new life” in quality, a new kind of life. It is not the same kind of life just patched up bit, with a few moral guidelines to keep us on the straight and narrow. We have entered into a new world full of love and life. We’ve fallen heart-first into endless rivers of holy enjoyment.

 Jesus said you couldn’t put a new piece of cloth on an old garment. And you cannot pour new, vibrant, and living wine into an old wineskin.  The two cannot go together.

 No wonder so many Christians have a joy deficiency. The “old life” and joy cannot coexist.

And the truth is that you are not the same old you; you are a New Creation living in a new world.

Absolutely everything is new!

 I don’t know about you, but this makes me happy! In fact, I feel like doing cartwheels right now!

I’m singing joyful praise to God. I’m turning cartwheels of joy to my Savior God.

Living in the Unforced Rhythms of Grace (by Godfrey Birtill)

Grace poured out

by Mick Mooney

Jesus' parable of the prodigal son was offensive to the Pharisees, not because the younger son rejected the father and went his own way, but because when he returned he was welcomed with great joy by the father, without a word of judgment about the younger son's previous rebellious ways.

Straight back in as a son, no questions asked. He was embraced, given a ring and slippers, and a great party thrown in his honor. The older son expected the father to be just! To treat him not as a son, but a traitor! He expected judgement, but instead he witnessed his father pour out an abundance of grace! Unfair! Unfair! Unjust even! The older brother thought.

The Pharisees believed in the coming of a messiah, but what they expected was a messiah that would offer salvation from the hands of an angry God. What Jesus revealed was something totally different, totally unexpected and deeply offensive to the religious... Jesus revealed God the Father was not angry at all. He revealed God our Father is love.

Welcome home.

Bigger then your secrets

The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all. 

by Nicky Gumbel @nickygumbel

God's Will is Always Healing

“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”― Brennan Manning

"May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long ,how high, and how deep His love really is."  - Ephesians 3:17, 18

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Hearts of worshipers across the world are positioned and primed to receive, shape and deliver the song of the Lord. Set it in motion, God.  

Suzi Yaraei

Rethinking Faith

Across All Worlds: Jesus Inside Our Darkness  © C. Baxter Kruger

 A quote from the Preface

“This book is about Jesus Christ finding us, and finding us in our fallen minds. He is not up there somewhere, watching us from a distance. He is not waiting for the day when he can become a factor in our lives. We tend to think that people are separated from Jesus, and that at some point folks pray to receive an absent Jesus into their lives. The truth is other way around. Jesus has received us into his life. We don’t make him part of our world; he has made us a part of his. He has included us in the abounding life he shares with his Father and in his anointing with the Spirit. And the us he has included is not the perfect us, not the untarnished version that we present to the world and hope everyone believes. The us he has included is the broken us, the wounded, tired, and scared us, the self-centered, self-protecting, hiding us. So we are in for a wild ride. For Jesus is determined that the broken us come to know his Father’s love in the freedom of the Spirit. He won’t give up.” 

Across All Worlds Jesus Inside Our Darkness  © C. Baxter Kruger