Deep-End Discipleship

  “ Listen, I’m telling you a secret: All of us won’t die, but we will all be changed.” - 1 Corinthians 15:51 CEB - Secrets are so great and so awful! We love to be the one with knowledge to share with someone else. But we hate to be left out of the loop. Often we are afraid that secrets shared without us are designed to hurt us or are about us or we simply do not want to be left out of the loop. Yet we can’t help but draw in close for someone whispering into our ear. Yet some secrets are so important that they need to be shared with everyone. Instead of being told in quiet corners and subtle conversations, they need to be shouted for all from the rooftops. Of all secrets the message of Jesus is needed to be told to all! Jesus lived, served, died and rose again to bring us new life. Just as Christ died, so we die to who we think we need to be and instead are allowed to be transformed into who God created us to be. Both now and forever more! The best part is t...

  “ Adopt the attitude that was in Christ Jesus: Though he was in the form of God, he did not consider being equal with God something to exploit. But he emptied himself by taking the form of a slave and by becoming like human beings.” - Philippians 2:5-7a CEB - The worry of overcharging a device seems like such a first world problem at times. For someone who has grown up with always changing technology, I remember it taking me a while to realize that leaving something plugged in could actually degrade the battery faster. It seems so counter intuitive that something at full power could actually be getting too much power. However, the opposite can be equally scary. Having little or no power left, especially on something so seemingly critical like our cell phone, can feel like death to the outside world. But having your phone run out of power, as socially crippling as it feels, does nothing to harm one’s battery or the phone itself. The act of emptying and using a phon...