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Take the Trek toward freedom with Dr. Rodin in devotional series.

Trek #2 – From Two-Kingdom to One-Kingdom Life

Trek #2 – From Two-Kingdom to One-Kingdom Life
  The Map To navigate our way along this second trek we will be guided by the following key text, image, themes and prayer.  Key Verses for Trek #2 – Matthew 6:25-34, and 13:44 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #7

Text Do not store up for your selves treasures on earth, where mobs and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where mobs and of vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21 Then he said to them all, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #6

Text The gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin: the judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #5

Text So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #4

Text It is by grace you have been saved through faith – and that is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8-9 Meditation We were created in the image of God as his covenant partners to engage in .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #3

Text “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.” John 16:25-27  Meditation In .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #2

Text  “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom: Meditation #1

Text Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. John 14:8-9  Meditation We can live with a profound sense of peace because we know the heart and the nature of the God who created us.  Teaching Two young boys were sitting .
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A One-Hundred Day Journey to Freedom

Today marks the beginning of what I pray will be for you a life-changing journey. I invite you to walk with me over the next one hundred days as we consider the journey of the faithful steward.  This journey has one primary goal – to set us free to live the life God created us to live. Our journey will be divided into seven ‘treks’.  As in every successful trip, we will start each .
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“Be Transformed” – Death not Denial

We are looking at six aspects of transformation as part of the Christian walk with Christ.  Our sixth and final component asks ‘how do we achieve this attitude of the joyous response of the godly steward?’  The answer may surprise you.  We only achieve it through death.  It may seem odd to end this series on life-giving transformation with a discussion of death, but in the end our transformation to godly stewards is really .
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