Sunday review: June 28—July 3

It’s the Fourth of July! Americans are celebrating their Independence Day, and many are including worship of God as part of their experience. You might decide to pray the prayer suggested in yesterday’s post. Or you might choose any of these as a good addition to however you’re spending your Sunday.

June 28
I suspect you’ve noticed the same thing I’ve noticed. Those of us who claim to follow Jesus are doing a lot of arguing with each other. And it’s not behind closed doors where we should be listening, practicing forgiveness, and experiencing reconciliation. It’s wide open on every media platform. Church folk are arguing about doctrine, race relations, sexuality, history, and power. And what’s worse, we tend to mirror the political world that often overlooks truth in favor of power, money, and fame.
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June 29
Paul’s experience was that he was content with weaknesses, hardships, calamities, and on top of that was even content with insults and persecution! Time after time, God revealed his strength as Paul demonstrated his contentment with his own limitations and weaknesses.
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June 30
We all have different gifts, abilities, and ideas that can be used in accomplishing the mission. But what we must not do is spend lots of time and energy debating different opinions, arguing the latest new interpretation of some ancient text, or getting lost on modality over mission. The mission is Jesus. When we focus on our resurrected Lord and what he has asked us to do, we will get closer to what Paul described in other letters where he encouraged us to have the “mind of Christ.”
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July 1
The older I get, the more joy I have when I see a younger person grow in their faith and dependence on God. It’s in those moments I think I may have captured what Psalm 71 is about and what my greatest legacy might be. And that is living a life in a way that allows others to know and experience God.
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July 2
Here in the land of between, we must never forget that the Kingdom Jesus established has no end. He will bring all enemies into submission. There will often be troubles and challenges in this world, but we can be of good cheer because we know that King Jesus will never allow his Kingdom to fail. And he is working his plan in each of our lives while we live here in our temporary bodies and in the land of between.
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July 3
As we prepare to celebrate another Independence Day in America, we come to you without swagger—we do not assume, God, that you owe our country something special, and we do not claim consideration that you would not give your people in any land. But we are concerned about our country.
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