Tag: Identity
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We’ve taught our children to be soldiers in the Lord’s army, marching and shooting imaginary enemies with gusto. But what if we’ve gotten the metaphor entirely wrong? When Peter drew his sword to defend Jesus in the garden, he thought he was being the ultimate faithful disciple—instead, Jesus rebuked him and healed the very person…
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We are all made in the image of God and the world wants us to forget this. Instead, they offer a fallen image that we are tempted to pursue instead. The world also wants us to forget that others are also made in the image of God, because how we see others affects how we…
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Everyone wants to be wanted. It’s how we understand our self worth. We can define our worth by what we can do for the world, which enslaves us to the fallen standard of the world. We can also define our worth by what others think, which forces us to abandon who we really are to…