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You are God's masterpiece |
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We are all looking for people in life that we can connect with... be real with. Yet all too often we feel the need to protect ourselves from being hurt. This causes us to play the performance management game. We think "if I let others see the real me they won't like me". And so we act out a different us when we are with people so we will find acceptance. Is it any wonder then that we do the same with God?
God sees right through that performance game and he's not playing. He is just waiting for you to get real with Him.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 September 2010 11:14 )
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 31 July 2010 18:19 )
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Written by Geoff Pengilly
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:14 |
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This week we'll be reflecting on the topic of grace in the Kingdom of God; in-particular Matthew 18: 21-35. As I was doing some reading in preparations I came across the following sobering words from Danny Silk in his latest book, 'Culture of Honor'.
 "If you think you have a relationship with Jesus going on and love isn’t showing up with your relationships with people, then I don’t know what you have. If you cannot cultivate heart-to-heart relationships and practice intimacy with people, guess who is fooling whom? If you don’t know God, He’ll look a lot like you. You’ll make Him up, and you’ll be a rock star in that relationship. When we don’t know who God is because we don’t know His love and how His love works, we get scared and we turn Him and our relationship with Him into what we already know." (pg.88)
When we live life this way we end up having a relationship with the rules rather than a love relationship with the King of the Kingdom. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:08 )
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Written by Geoff Pengilly
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Monday, 07 June 2010 18:59 |
"I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, ambition and self-seeking, pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. I also believe that many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. There must be an emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside down, and everything that is contrary to God is turned out, then the Spirit will come..."
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Don't be a theological Fat Cat |
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Written by Geoff Pengilly
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In recent times I have found myself in an akward situation of having limited means of transport. One of the vehicles we had as a family was involved in a minor accident and was written off  . So, this morning I decided I'd blow the dust of the old push bike and ride to work. Medic ! I was reminded of just how unfit I really am. Being open, I have not exercised much like this in a very long time. And when you don't exercise, the fat cat comes to visit.
I find the same principle can be at work in us as believers when it comes to the things of God. Access to good teaching on the Bible is easy in Australia, whether it be the Bible itself, books of helpful insight, people who teach on what the bible says etc. BUT... isn't sad that with all this teaching accessable, and let's say listened too, that so often the message given is not lived out; it's not owned. I believe God's word is meant to be exercised. As James once said, be not just hearers of the Word, but doers (James 1:22). Hence we can become theological fat cats, so much God food to eat and yet we are so fat through lack of living it out. I wonder what those in countries around the world who have such little access to the Word would think?
Maybe it's time to lose some weight! |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 04 May 2010 14:44 )
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