…grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ. ~ John 1:17b NASB While recently reading a news article about a political candidate, my attention was arrested by their statement: “This is what I have to do to play the game (ie., to get ahead politically), but it’s not who I am.” Not only was […]
Legitimacy Lies & Jesus – the Identity Statements
It’s been nearly two years since I introduced Persuaded Heart as a stand-alone post with potential of growing into a Wellspring series. I’d like us to revisit the original post, because two observable things have happened in the past 21 months. One, Persuaded Heart sat as a watchman at its post the rest of 2021. […]
Legitimacy Lies and The Art of Rehearsal
“You may not want to live in the past, but it sounds like the past is still living in you.” (Hallmark Christmas movie 2021, male lead to female lead) Whoever the script writer was, they nailed an aspect of legitimacy lies and the art of rehearsal with that line. The script could have just as […]
Legitimacy Lies – “This is How You Do It”
Legitimacy Lies – “This is how you do it” misused, aims at or lands in the heart of an individual’s God-given design. When my counselor husband and I were first introduced to the ever-growing study of the redemptive (grace) gifts, we took seriously the personal component of our respective designs. Early attempts to utilize even […]
Legitimacy Lies – Designed to Disservice Our Design
Legitimacy lies are arrows of the Accuser, their poison tips designed to penetrate one’s soul. If left intact, they permeate the ground of our life and who God designed us to be. There is a toxicity to these poison arrows. The human spirit – our own and the spirit of others – becomes the dumping […]