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All along the Israelites journey to the promised land God had them create signposts, memorials, and other ways to record their journey. This simple idea of recording your journey with your wins and steps of faith can be life changing. My whole life changed with the very simple commitment to start recording the lessons I had learned and pass them onto future generations. 

The goal of the Abundant Life Blueprint is to make other people great, but what does it mean to be great?

Jesus said that if we want to be great in the kingdom of heaven we must have childlike faith and humility. To me this means saying YES to God's plan while also realizing we can't make it happen on our own. Another key to greatness is found in Psalm 18:35 where David says that God's right hand supported him and his gentleness made him great. 

The faith to say YES to making other people great and the willingness to take a gentle approach rather than all o...

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The other day I was reading in Romans and noticed two times where it says God demonstrates. God leads by demonstration and example and demonstrated both his justice(some versions say righteousness) and love for us. 

Here is the first passage from Romans 3:21-26

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his justice (righteousness), because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice (rig...

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Last night for the 4th of July we had a campfire and while my kids were roasting marshmallows I began to think about how 1 Corinthians 3 says that our work will be tested and revealed with fire. 

Here is the passage from 1 Corinthians 3:10-14...

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the...

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Happy 4th of July!

Here is today's communion meditation. 

Proverbs 4:18-19 says, "The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble."

During the summer there is increased light and it is a reminder to expand every year. God's vision and plan for our lives should be unfolding a little more each year and we should also be growing in the light we have, meaning that we know more and more of what to do. We often talk about doing what you know to do. As God's light and plan unfolds a little more it leads to a higher level of knowing what to do. When there is darkness it is easy to trip and stumble over things but as our light increases more and more we can easily step over or remove the things that once tripped us up. 

Almost 10 years ago I started reading a Proverb every morning and I used to read verses like this and wonde...

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In 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 Paul discusses the difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. Here is what Paul had to say...

7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone(the 10 commandments), came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9 If the ministry that brought condemnation(it brought condemnation because none of the people could keep the rules and there was severe punishment) was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! 10 For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. 11 And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts(the righteousness of Jesus endures forever and has been given to us as a gift)!

12 Therefore, si...

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Isaiah 9:7 says that of the increase of His(Jesus) government and of peace there will be no end. I believe God likes us to continually expand. In July God often begins to expand our vision and show us a bigger glimpse of where he is leading us. He has given us purpose and grace in Christ Jesus before time began but if he showed it all to us at once it would be overwhelming. He knows the perfect time to unfold things for us. 

Don't be surprise if a bigger vision starts to come in the upcoming weeks. When the vision comes make sure to say YES, because there will be the temptation to let all the reasons why it won't work creep into your mind. When God showed Moses that he was to lead the people out of Egypt, Moses thought God should find someone else because he wasn't an eloquent speaker. But, if you look back at the life of Moses God had set him apart from birth. God told Moses, I made your mouth. I will help you speak and teach you what to say. The same thing happe...

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Our message for July is Favor, Patterns, & Relationships. Communion is a time to examine ourselves, and in today's communion we are going to be working on our own patterns. We all have patterns in how we relate to people and these patterns are very important. Colossians 4:6 says to let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. In today's communion we are asking God to help us with the tone in which we speak, especially to the people closest to us in our family. 

Something I have found to be true is we often use a tone with the people closest to us that we would never use with others. Our goal is to always have our conversations be full of grace, especially with those closest to us. Notice that when our speech is full of grace we know HOW to answer everyone. In conversations there is WHAT is said and HOW it was said. The HOW is usually more important than the WH...

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Here is the monthly message for July.

In July God often begins to expand our vision and show us a bigger glimpse for our live. July is also a reminder that we have favor with God. But, it's important to remember that we can grow in favor. Luke 2:52 says that Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man. 

How do we grow in favor with God and man? Patterns and relationships are two big keys. Recently I have been working with my kids on math and something we have been reinforcing over and over is that math is simply understanding patterns and relationships. When we understand the repetitive patterns and relationships with numbers math becomes much easier. 

In a similar way growing in favor with God and people has much to do with pattern recognition and how we relate to both God and people. Both God and people have patterns. For example, my wife and kids know my patterns. They know my habits and routines and the times I do them. They also know what push...

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New Workouts Coming Soon

Soon the Daily Communion Meditations will also include a short workout for the day.

Recently I have been doing something new in my workouts, but it takes a little understanding of the reasons behind it. Most physical training is aimed at forcing the body to change by making it do more and more work, but God has been showing me that we should be training our bodies to be more responsive to training rather than more resistant. The key to these new workouts is very simple...One 50 second set.

Everything is geared around performing well in one simple 50 second set for the day. But, in order to get to this place we do some other exercise to prepare and activate the body. All of the other work is meant to prime your body to be able to perform in the one 50 second set. Think of it like an athlete warming up to perform. Their goal is not to tire their body but to get it into a peak state. That is the goal for the day, get the body into a peak st...

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The other day our communion meditation was about the side of Jesus being pierced so that God could now be by our side. When his side was pierced it brought a sudden flow of blood and water. Crucifixion can cause fluid to develop around the heart. It can even get the point where the pressure from the fluid causes the heart to burst. 

When the side of Jesus was pierced the blood and water flowed out because of this build up of fluid around his heart. All through scripture there seems to be a connection to blood and water. The first miracle of Jesus was to turn water into wine. When Moses led the people out of Egypt the first plague was to turn the water of the Nile into blood. In Revelation, we see again that God turns water into blood. 

The blood of Jesus in communion is a symbol of him cleansing us and making atonement for us with his blood. Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. The blood is also a reminder of our covenant with God. The w...