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 <strong>"You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you;&nbsp;I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,</strong> 
 <strong>in a dry and parched land where there is no water. &nbsp;I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.&nbsp;Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.</strong> 
 <strong>I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. &nbsp;I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you." - Psalm 63</strong> 
<p><br><br>Matt Redman is a Christian songwriter…</p>
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<strong>“Wake up,&nbsp;sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5:14</strong><br><br>I've been thinking a lot about some familiar saying that I've heard as a Christian growing up around the church and I've been wrestling with why they often seem hollow to me. &nbsp;Martin Luther is quoted as making this statement "We are all mere&nbsp;beggars&nbsp;showing other beggars where to find bread.” &nbsp;We hear in our words and in our church culture that "I am&nbsp;sinner&nbsp;saved by grace". &nbsp;And I'm reminded many times that by Grace through… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998132/saved-from-saved-for">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>It's Saturday night and I'm waiting to pick up my older two kids after their participation in the play at Wisconsin Lutheran High School.&nbsp; I was able to rake, dump leaves, mow the lawn, get a nap in all while wearing a T-shirt on this crazy warm November day and as I kick back at my computer I'm thinking about worship tomorrow morning.&nbsp; Last weekend I was able to present encouragement to men at the Men of His Word conference in Rochester, WI around the idea of a Great Marriage and I wanted to share an…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998131/add-value">Read more</a></span></div>
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It has definitely been a season of challenge, of growth, of grace and living in the struggle over the past month. The value of just reading the bible and being in God's word is one of the places where all the chaos and crazy just melts away and you find a quiet and a peace and wisdom when it comes to the bigger picture. I'm working on memorizing Proverbs Chapter 8. I believe it is one of the few times where the Holy Spirit actually names himself and speaks directly to us as the third person of the…  
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<p><br>I've been thinking a lot about what fear does to people, but thinking more on what it actually is. Fear is really a confession of a need for help. A circumstance happens and in that moment we often react to the fact that we don't have enough information about what is happening in the moment and we have exceptional anxiety about negative impacts in the future.<br><br>And then we often hold onto the fear, internalizing it for fear of embarrassment. But to move beyond fear, it often starts with a confession of our…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998129/what-to-do-with-fear">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>American politics and culture are a pretty tough place to be.&nbsp; It’s always been that way, but over the past 15 years it seems that the political divide has become much larger and the “middle” is much smaller to almost non existent.&nbsp; And as it often is, politics represents culture in its more honest form and the bottom line is that people disagree.&nbsp; In an America where we’re all supposed to put aside our personal beliefs for the common good, or at least keep our personal beliefs, well… personal, it’s hard…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998128/play-nice">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><br><br><br>In a few weeks I will be returning to Murphy, NC to do a benefit concert to support an addiction treatment center as part of a thank you to something that God did in my life in one of the most unassuming places I could have imagined.&nbsp; In town to do a concert with a radio friend of mine, I was blown away at what the final outcome was and what it has meant for me in ministry and in life.&nbsp; Sometimes the biggest disappointments are the most fertile ground for God to plant the best desires.&nbsp; This is part of my…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998127/1000-miles-for-an-audience-of-seven-spiritual-lessons-from-the-road">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Leaners?&nbsp; I've been thinking about the idea that we sometimes have a tendency to get out ahead of God.&nbsp; His command for us in Ephesians 6 is to "stand firm" against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms, yet we often run out into the battle outside the plans and timing of the one who actually can do the fighting.&nbsp; Impatience to see God's will for our lives unfold?&nbsp; Following along with the crowd?&nbsp; Worry nagging at your confidence and playing on your fears?&nbsp; Do you feel like running forward to…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998126/leaners">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>The world is in prison with a zombie identity (Ephesians 2), looking for life and for healing; – they will never find it apart from Christ. Jesus came to bring life from death, he came to change our identity – give us true relationship and to give life to the full. This relationship is all Jesus doing – allowing us an opportunity for confession and true forgiveness, true healing and loved completely. Don’t only run from sin, but run TO…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998125/the-best-part-of-being-alive">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>In preparing for the last of the "Awake and Alive 2014 Summer Series" messages, we wanted to focus on the prayer that Paul had in his letter to the churches, specifically to Ephesians.&nbsp; In it he asks them to pray for him that he would declare the Gospel message faithfully as he should.&nbsp; I asked one of my pastoral mentors about the original Greek language translation and how we might better understand it.&nbsp; It is pronounced "Oi - Angelian", (don't ask me to spell it) and the general translation looks like…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/mike-s-blog-posts/blog/5998124/the-gospel-good-news-or-good-message">Read more</a></span></div>
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