Daily Sheet: Day 138: Calmness
Family Book: “Through My Eyes”
Travel: Louisiana; Arkansas; Tennessee; North Carolina; Virginia; Maryland; Delaware; West Virginia; Kentucky
Video: “Hold Me Jesus” – Rich Mullins (live, acoustic, with Dutch subtitles)
Tag Archives: Faith
Day 132: Self-Control
Daily Sheet: Day 132: Self-Control
Family Book: “Separate Is Never Equal”
Travel: Kiribati; Nauru; Tuvalu
Day 131: Security
Daily Sheet: Day 131: Security
Family Book: “Psalm 23”
Travel: Samoa, Tonga
Video: “You Cannot Lose My Love” – Sara Groves
Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes
Day 126: Action
Daily Sheet: Day 126: Action
Family Book: “Irena’s Jars of Secrets”
Travel: Poland
Video: “Us For Them” – Gungor (official lyric video)
Day 115: Care
Daily Sheet: Day 115: Care
Family Book: “The Call of the Swamp”
Travel: Paraguay
Song: “Hands” – Roo Panes
Hold gently what you wish to grow old with. Don’t close those hands.
Questions:
- What do you think this book is about?
- Do you think it was right for Boris to go back to the swamp?
- Why did his parents respond the way they did?
- Discuss the song “Hands” as it relates to this book.
Day 111: Organization
Daily Sheet: Day 111: Organization
Family Book: “Aunt Minnie McGranahan”
Travel: Hungary; Croatia; Bosnia; Serbia; Bulgaria
Video: “I Am Not a Mistake” – Indiana Feek
Video: “The Color Green” – Rich Mullins (official music video, with introduction by Rich)
Day 108: Perseverance
Daily Sheet: Day 108: Perseverance
Family Book: “The Butter Man”
Travel: Western Sahara; Morocco
Video: “When The Saints” – Sara Groves (images from the persecuted church; with lyrics)
Song: “Mistral” – Roo Panes
Day 101: Belief
Daily Sheet: Day 101: Belief
Family Book: “I Believe: The Nicene Creed”
Travel: Congo
Video: “Creed” – Rich Mullins (with introduction by Rich)
I hope I would leave a legacy of joy; a legacy of real compassion. Because I think there is a great joy in real compassion. I don’t think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people, caring enough about people that you actually do something. But I have a feeling like if my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I will probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live in the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sorts of things, that’s the only time I think that we really leave a great legacy. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. My ambition to be a good guy is a fleshly ambition. And when Christ calls us to take up our cross and follow him, a lot of us think that what that means is we’re supposed to lay down our vices, and we’re supposed to cling to virtues, but I think that unless Christ is Lord of our virtues, our virtues become dangerous to us and dangerous to the people around us. I think that when Christ calls us to take up our cross, what He means is you must die not only to whatever vices are in your life, which he will eventually kill out, you must also die to whatever virtues are in your life. Your life is not valuable because you are an articulate speaker, your life is not valuable because you are a generous person, your life is not valuable because of any of that. If we empty ourselves of everything and allow God to be present, then it’s no longer us, it’s Him. Then it becomes a spiritual thing. And that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. And that’s when I think Christianity really begins to make sense.
Video: “Creed” – Rich Mullins with Third Day (with Croatian subtitles)
Day 97: Tolerance
Daily Sheet: Day 97: Tolerance
Family Book: “The Relatives Came”
Travel: Seychelles; Mauritius
Song: “When It Was Over” – Sara Groves (with lyrics)
Oh love wash over a multitude of things, love wash over a multitude of things, love wash over a multitude of things; Make us whole.
There is love that never fails; There is a healing that always prevails; There is a hope that whispers a vow, a promise to stay while we’re working it out, so come with your love and wash over us.
Questions:
- What are some different meanings of the word “tolerance”?
- What is the difference between tolerance and acceptance?
- What are some things we should not tolerate? Why not?
Day 91: Acceptance
Daily Sheet: Day 91: Acceptance
Family Book: “Leo the Lop”
Travel: Botswana
Video: “One Faith” – John Michael Talbot & Michael Card
He is the good Shepherd and He’s laid down his life for His sheep, so out of many nations He’s gathered one fold and one faith;
And He has built His church on the rock foundation of faith, on apostles and prophets who shepherd the people in His place.
And He gave to Simon Peter and to all the twelve the keys of the Kingdom so darkness shall never prevail
But some of the shepherds have pastured themselves on their sheep, so He has come out against them and scattered His people of faith.
In good pasture He will shepherd His people; On the mountain top He feeds His sheep. He will heal the poor and afflicted; To the prisoner He brings release.
Yet He’ll not forsake His people; He’ll claim His sheep for His own. He’ll send out His Word to the nations, regather His people back home,
For He is the good Shepherd. He’s laid down His life for His sheep, so out of many nations He’s gathered one fold and one faith.
There is one faith, one hope, and one baptism, One God and Father of all. There is one church, one body, one life in the Spirit now given so freely to all.
Questions:
- What does it mean to “Accept one another… just as Christ accepted you”?
- Put Leviticus 19:34 into today’s terms.
- What does John Michael Talbot’s song, “One Faith,” have to do with acceptance?
- Discuss the significance of John Michael Talbot’s (biography here) and Michael Card’s (biography here) collaboration on this project.
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