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    Follow the Bubbles

    Author
    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    Scripture
    Romans 8:26, John 14:26, Psalm 139:9-10, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Isaiah 42:16, Psalm 119:105
    When I graduated from college I was given one of the greatest opportunities of my young life. A group of my friends were told that if we were able to purchase a flight to the Cayman Islands, we would ...

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    Stronger on the Inside

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    Alisha Illian
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    I was listening to a show on the National Geographic channel. Two deep-sea diving experts were discussing the physics of a submarine. I found it fascinating that every square inch of a submarine’s hul...

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    Look at These

    Author
    Andy Cook
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    Scripture
    Psalm 121:7-8, Romans 8:38-39, John 10:28-29, Psalm 91:14-15, Isaiah 41:10
    Davon Huss tells the story of a boy who came home one hot afternoon, anxious to take a cool swim in the pond behind his home. He lived in south Florida, so taking a quick dip was a common way to cool ...

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    A Mother Holds On

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    Andy Cook
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    Davon Huss tells the story of a boy who came home one hot afternoon, anxious to take a cool swim in the pond behind his home. He lived in south Florida, so taking a quick dip was a common way to cool ...

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    Psalm 91 | God as Dwelling Place Against

    Author
    Scott B. Bullock
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    Scripture
    Psalm 91:, Genesis 3:, Deuteronomy 6:16
    Ancient lens What’s the historical context? Psalm of Lament or Psalm of Trust? We’ve categorized this psalm under the psalms of lament. The psalms of lament highlight the problems and enemies tha...

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    The Beatitudes: An Antidote to Superficial Christianity

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    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    This blog post started as the introduction to a book review (details below), but I rather quickly realized I had two posts on my hands, not one: There are two quotes about the beatitudes that I lov...

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    Is the Bible More Like a Rule Book or a Compass?

    Author
    Jeff Myers
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    Scripture
    2 Timothy 3:16-17, Romans 15:4, Isaiah 55:11, Hebrews 4:12-13, 2 Peter 1:19-21, Matthew 4:4, Matthew 24:35
    The Bible contains rules, but it’s not helpful to think of it as a rule book. As important as rule books are, they don’t inspire devotion. Imagine curling up with a cup of coffee and your company’s em...

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    Hope Can Be Hard to Come By

    Author
    John Piper
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    Scripture
    Psalm 18:6, 2 Corinthians 1:8-9, Romans 8:28, Psalm 34:17-18, Isaiah 41:10, Lamentations 3:21-23, Philippians 4:13
    But hope is hard to come by. I should know. I remember the time when I was once busy dying. It wasn’t long after I had broken my neck in a diving accident that I spent one particularly hopeless week i...

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    Parachuting Into Unknown Territory

    Author
    Vaughan Roberts
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    Jeremiah 10:23, Proverbs 16:9, James 1:5, Psalm 32:8, Isaiah 30:21, Psalm 25:4-5, Proverbs 3:5-6
    I am told that when SAS soldiers parachute into unknown territory they are trained to pause before moving. They must first get their bearings and only then set out for their destination. That is wise ...

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    Drifting in the Ocean

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    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    If you’ve ever spent time in the ocean, whether it be swimming, body-surfing, boogie-boarding—you know how easy it is to drift. One minute your family is right in front of you on the beach, the next m...

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    Surviving Navy Seals Training

    Author
    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    Scripture
    Joshua 1:9, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 4:13, 2 Timothy 1:7, James 1:2-4
    Becoming a Navy Seal is considered the most challenging training of any military unit in the U.S. military. And as difficult as most of their training is, nothing can compare to BUDS, which stands for...

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    The EAC

    Author
    Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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    Scripture
    Philippians 3:14, Matthew 7:13-14, 1 Peter 5:8-9, Colossians 2:8, Psalm 1:1-3, Ephesians 4:14, Romans 12:2
    Perhaps the most intense place to experience drifting is commonly known as the EAC, the East Australian Current. If you’ve ever seen the Disney Pixar film Finding Nemo, you’ve been exposed to the EAC,...

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    Author
    Thomas Cahill
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    [St.] Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination-making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

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    Author
    Thomas Cahill
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    Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination-making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish.

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    Author
    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Colossians 3:23-24, Ephesians 5:21, Romans 12:10, Galatians 5:13, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, John 13:14-15
    Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

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    Author
    John Owen
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    In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

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    Author
    Randy Alcorn
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    Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

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    Coming Down

    Author
    C. S. Lewis
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    Scripture
    John 1:14, Philippians 2:6-8, Hebrews 2:14-15, Colossians 1:19-20, 2 Corinthians 8:9
    C.S. Lewis on the Incarnation: We catch sight of a new key principle—the power of the Higher, just in so far as it is truly Higher, to come down, the power of the greater to include the less. . . . ...

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    Author
    R. C. Sproul
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    Scripture
    Romans 6:4, Colossians 2:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 11:25-26, Ephesians 2:4-5
    God just doesn’t throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of...

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    Author
    William Faulkner
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    You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

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    St. Syncletice
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    Everything that is extreme is destructive. So do not suddenly throw away your armor, or you may be found unarmed in the battle and made an easy prisoner. Our body is like armor, our soul like the warr...

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    Is There Any Hope?

    Author
    Charles R. Swindoll
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    Scripture
    Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 42:5, Romans 15:13, Isaiah 41:10, Lamentations 31:21-23, Hebrews 6:19, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
    Years ago an S-4 submarine was rammed by a ship off the coast of Massachusetts. It sank immediately. The entire crew was trapped in a prison house of death. Every effort was made to rescue the crew, b...

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    To Become a Fish

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    1 John 4:9-10, Romans 8:3, Colossians 1:19-20, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Isaiah 53:4-5, Hebrews 2:14, Philippians 2:6-8
    I learned about incarnation when I kept a salt-water aquarium. Management of a marine aquarium, I discovered, is no easy task. I had to run a portable chemical laboratory to monitor the nitrate levels...

  • Quote

    Author
    John Chrysostom
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    Scripture
    Matthew 14:22-23, Mark 4:35-41, James 1:2-4, Acts 27:13-26, Jonah 1:4-16
    The disciples are tossed on the waves again. They are in a storm, fully as bad as the previous one. Gently and by degrees he excites and urges the disciples on toward greater responsiveness, even to t...

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    Confession: Coming to the Edge of Our Graves

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    Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
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    One of the movements in the rhythm of discipleship and sanctification is the movement of dying. The practice of confession is where the “dying” of conversion repeatedly occurs. We come as though to th...

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    Not Giving Way to the Other

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    In the summer of 1986, two ships collided in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia. Hundreds of passengers died as they were hurled into the icy waters below. News of the disaster was further darkened...

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    Author
    G. K. Chesterton
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    The diction used about Christ has been, and perhaps wisely, sweet and submissive. But the diction used by Christ is quite curiously gigantesque; it is full of camels leaping through needles and mounta...

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    Author
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.

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    Oceans: 2, Acts 27:27-44

    Author
    Allen Thompson
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    Scripture
    Acts 27:27-44, Acts 27:27-44, Acts 27:null, Acts 9:32-43, Acts 9:null, Isaiah 60:1-3, Isaiah 43:1-2, Lamentations 3:22-24, Ephesians 2:11-22, Acts 27:27-44
    For purposes of practicality and relatability, this series considers the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea “oceans.”  The point is to relate our present-day affinity for the ocean, seashore, and beach...

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    Riding the Monsters

    Author
    Annie Dillard
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    Entering the wilderness is a larger metaphor for dealing with our own demons, our own motivations, be they good or bad. In this short excerpt, Annie Dillard shares the value of entering the wilderness...
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