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The forty days of Lent open up a journey from the top of Transfiguration Mountain to the bottom of the Valley of the Cross. These forty days provide forty steps, if you will, to lean in and listen deeply to Jesus. As we do so we find the way of the cross is the road to resurrection. Listening to Jesus-it's our highest calling to the lowest place where we discover our lives transformed and our worst days breaking forth into our best life.
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Through this Daily Text discipleship resource, James will implore us day after day to become real Christians. There are many people all around us who have been hurt by hypocrisy and who will only be healed by seeing the genuine article. Widows, orphans, and so many caught in the cruelty of inescapable poverty wake up every day with hopes of meeting their first real Christian. Jesus has all their numbers, and James has ours. He's looking for more friends...
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No matter how far along on the journey, you never progress beyond this core aspiration: I want to know Christ. It is ever in front of us. It can take time to get there; and be even more challenging to stay there. So why would we make such a declaration? Only one reason-Jesus has already made this kind of declaration toward us. This is the invitation. Paul believed because Jesus had attained to the resurrection of the dead in this life, that it was...
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For the followers of Jesus, the new year begins with Advent. And what a beginning it is as we start by looking to the very end of the age and the second coming of Christ. Advent issues a clarion call to wake from our slumber, realign life, and get in step with the Holy Spirit.
The Christian New Year unfolds a journey from the second coming all the way to Bethlehem and the first coming, setting the stage for the year ahead. Gather with family, friends,...
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In What Happens in Corinth, J. D. Walt digs in to the apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Paul was writing to a fledgling community of about 150 people in a city of 150,000. And these 150 believers were a hot mess. Paul doesn't spend any time wishing for a better church; he works with what God gave him. He knows it only takes a few truly consecrated souls to turn the world upside down.
Though what happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas,...
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The Psalms are songs, written not for reading but singing. What if we could sing them again, claiming the Psalms as the soundtrack of our lives? In this forty-day devotional guide, J. D. Walt shows us a way.
Each daily entry begins with a psalm followed by a short reflection; not a list of things to do, but a simple plan to invite the Holy Spirit to weave melody and message into your day. And, yes, we will provide melodies at seedbed.com/soundtrack...
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In Reset, J. D. Walt follows Mary and Joseph on a journey through that first Advent season and into the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. In reading this interpretation of the conversations that may have occurred between them as they walked along the road, families can begin to understand more deeply and intimately what it meant for the Lord to be coming then, as well as what it means for him to be coming now.
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As we impress the Word of God on our hearts, talk about it along the way, write it on our gates and our doorpost, bind it to our wrist, text it to our friends, anchor in with our families, the Word does the work. Our part is not passive. It's just not primary.
Only one kingdom will prevail-the kingdom of Jesus-and it is hovering just over the present state of chaos in our world, already breaking in through the tiniest seeds that will become-and indeed...
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In our smart phone world, it is so easy to give Gmail the first word of the day and Facebook the last word. Or maybe it's Instagram and Netflix. It's interesting how a day of this becomes a week and a week becomes a month and then it's a full-blown habit. Our lives consist not in the big decisions and banner events dotting our calendars but in the little things we consistently do day after day after day. We are what we do . . . every single day. Days...
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It's time to stop crying in our soup about the consumeristic commercializationof Christmas. Instead of bashing the culture for making Black Friday bigger than Thanksgiving, let' do something different this year. Let's do Advent. Instead of quibbling over saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas," let's recover what it means to celebrate Holy Days. Instead of our cheesy slogansabout the "reason for the season," let's practice a sacred season...
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Welcome to Behold, the Man, a guide through the celebrated Gospel of John. From the prologue through the post-resurrection, through the seven sayings and seven signs, from the woman at the well to the woman caught in adultery, and from Nathanael to Nicodemus, the apostle John leads us on a journey from heaven to earth and back again. Whether this be your first time through John's Gospel or your hundredth time, there is more of Jesus to behold. Even...
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The Awakened Life is an invitation for a long-haul journey. It is an invitation to the people of God to band together and sow for a great awakening. Not a passing revival or a spiritual renewal or a refreshing, but a full-scale awakening. It's time for us to recognize that as essential as our institutions of governing, education, and healing are to our world, they lack, even combined, the capacity to provide for the desperate needs all around us....
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A "called" life means many things for many people. It canliterally take the form of any job under the sun. It might meanserving as the pastor of a church. It might mean serving as amember of Congress. To embrace the "called" life does notnarrow the scope of the future. It opens up the horizon.
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One of the great realities of scripture is that the most common verses hold the greatest mysteries until the Holy Spirit opens our eyes. So it is with John 3:16-"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." Then what? Surely there's more to the Christian life than just believing. In This Is How We Know, J. D. Walt invites us on a forty-four-day devotional journey...
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A disciple of Jesus must become a student of Jesus in every conceivable fashion. As we are baptized into his death, we are raised into his life. As we are raised into his life, we are filled with his Spirit. As we are filled with his Spirit, we learn to think after his thoughts and to discern his mind to do the stuff of his work.
In the Gospels, we see what it looks like when the Holy Spirit perfectly and completely inhabits, possesses, and empowers...
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When people mention "the domino effect," they are typically talking about setting up dominos end over end and arranging them into some kind of design in order to tip the first one and begin the chain reaction. But there's another type of domino effect in which a two-inch tall domino can topple a larger domino, which can topple an even larger domino, and eventually topple the Empire State Building. And so it is with Colossians, a treasure trove of...
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Awaken: From Dry Bones to the River of Life is an invitation for a long-haul journey. It is an invitation to the people of God to band together and sow for a great awakening. Not a passing revival or a spiritual renewal or a refreshing, but a full-scale awakening. It's time for us to recognize that as essential as our institutions of governing, education, and healing are to our world, they lack, even combined, the capacity to provide for the desperate...
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It is easy to become confined by our prayers. We say these words at those times and at that place in the morning or before a meal or at this point in the Sunday service. Prayer slips into a faithful practice when it was meant to be the core substance of a faith-filled life. That's the point of this book-to shake us free from a dutiful prayer life and launch us into a more expansive life of prayer.
Jesus is calling his disciples beyond a mere prayer...
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The greatest and most singular need for people who want to follow Jesus is courage. We need to have courage put into us. And we need it not just every now and then or before a big challenge or in the midst of a hard struggle or loss-we need it every day. The big crises of unjust treatment, unforeseen losses, tragic deaths, life-stealing diseases, betrayals, relationship failures, and all manner of pain and suffering can create seasons of wilderness,...