Podcasts about born from above

Guest Teacher, Trevor Reubenstein covers Jesus conversation with Nicodemus and the need to be Born From Above.All In Gospel Podcast is a chapter by chapter, verse by verse, in depth bible study where we seek to understand God's Word.All In Gospel is recorded live at Calvary Chapel with Pastor Seann Dikkers. You can support this study at anchor.fm/allingospel, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ccwhitebear.com.

Greetings, if you would like to support Free Gospel Church and our ministries, you can make a donation at FreeGospelAssembly.com.  Thank you for listening. If this message has blessed you please share it, that others may hear! God bless you.1 Corinthians 13; It's not only for Weddings) See also Hebrews 5:11-6:31 Corinthians 13 is also a very important interpretive key to the rest of the N.T. Itreveals limits to our knowledge and understanding of the Gospel. Even in our “Born From Above” state, the best we can know and understand is “in part”(v12). But even with our partial understanding via the Holy Spirit, Scripture, the body of Christ we can progress in a pleasing way before God. He appreciates our good faith effort in the context of His mercy and forgiveness.Our progression in our Christ experience goes from doctrines, gifts of the Spirit tothe ultimate goal of love, because even at the center of His being, “God is love”: And the central call for us is to love; remember Matthew 22:37-40: God, others and ourselves. Without our growth in love both as an inner attitude and outer behavior all other things received from God (gifts, faith, hope) in His estimation, “we gain nothing or more literally “it amounts to nothing”' The NIV in verse 2 states literally “I am nothing!” This chapter aligns with Paul's teaching in Galatians, about the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25); This is what it means to “Keep in step with the Spirit.”(Galatians 5:25). But, chapter 13 does not state that love as a perfect finality is possible while on earth only in heaven, but grows in it while still on earth.(13:12)

Today's sermon is for Lent 4 (B) and is titled Born From Above. It was written by the Rev. Warren Thomas Swenson and read by the Rev. Danae Ashley. Sermons That Work is an offering of the Episcopal Church's Office of Communication. For more free resources, including sermons, Bible studies, bulletin inserts, and more, visit episcopalchurch.org/sermons. We would love it if you'd rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcasting platform – and while you're at it, share it with a friend!

John 3:3-8 Jesus had just told Nicodemus that you must be born again to see the kingdom of God and it was a confusing statement to him, leading to a simple question. Pastor Rod Bunton walks through Jesus' response that helps clarify what it means to be “born again.” The post Born From Above appeared first on Grace Church of Tallahassee.

Pastor Joe Fant Continues his series on The Book of John with his message titled "Born From Above."

Born From Above sermon by Rev. Dr. David Brown on March 5, 2023.Wayfarers Chapel is an Ecumenical Ministry of the Swedenborgian Church and the National Memorial to Emanuel Swedenborg located In Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. The podcast is the audio portion of weekly sermons posted on YouTube.To view these sermons subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/wayfarerschapel.Support the show

The Rev. Dr. Andrew Grosso | “Born From Above”

Jesus walked this line. Have you tried it? Daily devotionals through the Gospel of John with speaker and author Vince Miller.

A new MP3 sermon from Todd's Road Grace Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Born From Above Speaker: Todd Nibert Broadcaster: Todd's Road Grace Church Event: TV Broadcast Date: 1/8/2023 Bible: John 3:1-8 Length: 28 min.

Born From Above by Teresa Bowen

John 8:13-18 The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.” Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going. You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”The testimony and decisions of Jesus were valid because he was not alone. God was his witness. Before we act, decide, judge, or testify, we need to make sure we can say I am not alone. I stand with Jesus and the Father who sent him.I AM NOT OF THIS WORLDJohn 8:23 But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.We are sent INTO the world, but not of it.Sometimes we are so focused on the world we are NOT OF that we lose sight of the world that we ARE OF.Born From Above - to be interactively joined with a dynamic, unseen system of divine reality in the midst of which all of humanity moves about- whether it knows it or not.The damage done to our practical faith in Christ and in his government at hand by confusing heaven with a space in distant or other space, or even beyond space, is incalculable. Of course God is there too. But instead of heaven and God also being always present with us, as Jesus shows them to be, we invariably take them to be located far away and, most likely, at a much later time- not here and not now. And we should then be surprised to feel ourselves alone? - WillardRomans 8:5-6 The carnal attitude sees no further than natural things. But the spiritual attitude reaches out after the things of the spirit. The former attitude means, bluntly, death: the latter means life and inward peace.I AM NOT SEEKING GLORY FOR MYSELFJohn 8:48-50 The Jews answered him, “Aren't we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?” “I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.“I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. I am not seeking glory for myself;Jesus' desire to honor God and his personal humility disproved any charge of demonic possession. Since those who have Satan as their spiritual parent will have some of the characteristics of Satan, they will have an evident pride and self-seeking – things that were and are absent in Jesus. - Guzik Jesus didn't have to seek his own glory because he knew that there is one that seeks it for him.

This episode of Kingdom Strategies was recorded live at Freedom Life Church where Steve Pixler serves. This message, Born From Above, is a key, strategic message for kingdom advance. Join Steve as he preaches about how the new birth births heaven through you.  LEARN MORE: stevepixler.com & myfreedomlife.com BOOKS: amazon.com/author/stevepixler FOLLOW: facebook.com/stevepixlerpage instagram.com/stevepixler

A continuation from our previous podcast on 1 Corinthians 13:6 and Paul's statement that divine biblical love does not rejoice in iniquity. When we are born into this world, all of us come pre-wired with the spiritual DNA from the same father – Nachash (Genesis 3:1) also called the Serpent and the Devil. Indeed, he IS OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER whether we know it, like it or not. Hence, when we are born into this "Before Life" - as opposed to our wait for an "After Life," we certainly do not know how to love because we are not "wired" for it. This is precisely why Yeshua said that we must be BORN FROM ABOVE as he also said this to Nicodemus in John 3:3 and 3:7. Our natural inclination is to love our fallen human condition, a nature that is happy with iniquity ("ahvon" in Hebrew). This explains why Paul so accurately wrote these words with his New Covenant thinking-mind – the Mind of Messiah.  On this podcast, we will look into the DNA of our Father, the Serpent of Genesis chapter three. The story of the Serpent's DNA is going to show us a lot about how much true love can and will cost us when we desire to Walk in Love which also means to Walk in the Spirit.  We'll find out more about this today.Join us today for our podcast Episode 81 of Real Israel Talk Radio and Defining Biblical Love Program Part 17.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=23WBKCMBHKDT8/Ancient Roads: Real Israel Talk Radio)

Jesus And Nicodemus- Born Again. Born From Above. (John 3:1–15) by Christ Church Bellingham

Paul’s second interview with Dave Carringer, author of “Born From Above” (waking up to our Genesis), just released in March 2020.  In 1996 at the age of 24, desperate from being involved in a life of drugs, violence and danger, Dave had an encounter with God that dramatically changed the trajectory of his life. He soon starting ministering to those in jail, teenagers on the street who were drinking and doing drugs, the abandoned elderly, and a host of others. Eventually he came to realize that the world doesn’t need more Bible teacher, rather it needs more carriers of the Father’s heart. He describes himself as an “ordinary guy on an extraordinary journey.”

Paul interviews Dave Carringer, author of “Born From Above” (waking up to our Genesis), just released in March 2020.  In 1996 at the age of 24, desperate from being involved in a life of drugs, violence and danger, Dave had an encounter with God that dramatically changed the trajectory of his life. He soon starting ministering to those in jail, teenagers on the street who were drinking and doing drugs, the abandoned elderly, and a host of others. Eventually he came to realize that the world doesn’t need more Bible teacher, rather it needs more carriers of the Father’s heart. He describes himself as an “ordinary guy on an extraordinary journey.”

March 8, 2020 | Reclaiming Jesus (Part 2): Born From Above

Audio from 10am worship, including scripture, choir, and sermon The post Born From Above appeared first on Zion United Church of Christ.

Sermons preached at Church of the Good Shepherd, Maitland, Florida.

03/08/2020 - Born From Above by Brockington Church

Sanctuary Service 1/26/2020: Born From Above http://media.urclearning.org/audio/MSJ_2020-01-26_Born_From_Above.mp3

Sanctuary Service 1/26/2020: Born From Above http://media.urclearning.org/audio/MSJ_2020-01-26_Born_From_Above.mp3

In EPISODE 110 THE STARS AND PLANETS -- THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH IN PROPHECY, author, speaker and host Elbert Hardy covers the stars, planets and galaxies in Prophecy: the New Heavens and the New Earth wherein righteousness dwells.

In John 3, when Jesus was talking to Nicodemus about being born again, he was speaking about being born from above. Those born from above (heaven) return to heaven. Not because of any good thing they have done, but because of their citizenship. Support the show (https://paypal.me/RickManis?locale.x=en_US)

Jesus's dialogue with Nicodemus in John gives us context to some famous Bible verses. One of those messages to us is to be careful of assuming that those we like and favor can do no bad, and those we dislike can do no good. The world is too complicated to divide into us and them, so we should resist any attempt to use Jesus to do it.

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No matter what our age, no matter how much we know or understand, no matter how many good things we do, salvation is God's gracious gift to us. God loves us before we are able to love God back. To participate in God's kingdom, we must be as little children in God's arms. This is a major reason why Presbyterians and other Christians baptize infants and small children as well as older children and adults. Baptism is a sign of pure grace.

Brad Sullivan 2 Lent, Year A March 12, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston John 3:1-17 Babies Crawling On the Ever-Shifting Sands of Time “They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.” That’s from poet and prophet, Billy Joel, in the song Summer Highland Falls. That single idea, that these aren’t the best of times, but they are the only times I’ve ever known, that idea holds true for each new generation, doesn’t it? When we’re first born, the world doesn’t seem crazy and messed up. It just seems like the world, even if it is crazy and messed up. Then we get older and the world seems different, and we get older and the world seems even more different. The world changes more and more, until sometimes folks find themselves living in a world they no longer really recognize or understand. New folks move into the neighborhood and the neighborhood changes. The constant and regular practices of our religion become less constant, not at all regular, and the younger generations don’t do things the way we used to. Texting replaces written invitations to parties and other events. The interwebs replace print media. Star Wars gets taken over by Disney! Ways of life, unacceptable when we were children are now acceptable decades later. Whatever the changes, they’re happening all the time, all around us. We’re often longing for the past, or the good old days, or the way we did things “back in my day,” and into this longing for the past, this longing for some firm footing on the ever shifting sands of time, Jesus said, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born from above.” Well, if you are born from above, then what are you, or what is your spirit, but that of a newborn baby? See babies and children don’t long for the good old days. They see the world around them, and they can live in it and accept the world as it is. They can see God in the world all around them. The Kingdom of God is not hidden from the eyes of infants and children because they aren’t looking for God’s Kingdom in some longed-for and likely over-romanticized past. Infants and children can simply live into God’s Kingdom in the ever changing present. Our ties to the past are not a bad thing in and of themselves. They give us wisdom and some grounding in the ever-shifting sands of time, but those very ties to the past, when tied too tightly, end up binding us so that we can no longer move, and we see the sands a-shifting, we see the times a-changing, and we become afraid. That is how Nicodemus felt when he came to Jesus stating, “we know that you are a teacher who has come from God…” Nicodemus made a statement, declaring that Jesus was from God, but Nicodemus also came to Jesus at night. He was curious about Jesus, but he was also frightened. Jesus didn’t mesh with what he thought he knew about God’s Kingdom, and behind Nicodemus’ statement that Jesus had come from God, was a question. “How can it be that you come from God, when what you say and do, while like what God taught, seems so different from the religion that I know?” Something of what Jesus said and did resonated very deeply with Nicodemus. In Jesus, Nicodemus could see the Kingdom of God, and at the same time, Jesus was different than the religion of Nicodemus’ childhood and training, and the fear that Nicodemus felt at that difference was eclipsing his curiosity. Be born from above, Jesus said. Be a baby again, full of curiosity and without fear, trusting not in the past, but in God and God’s Kingdom all around you. In these first weeks of Lent, Emmanuel has decided to get curious about God and God’s Kingdom all around us. On Ash Wednesday, we had our regular services here, and we also changed how we’d always done things by bringing ashes and prayers with us out into the surrounding community for “Ashes to Go,” something churches have been doing close to about 10 years now, actually. We went out into the world, where Jesus already was, and we both offered moments of grace in the ashes and prayer, the holy things of our church, and we received moments of grace from the people we met. We didn’t bring Jesus to anyone. Jesus was already there, and we got to encounter Jesus together. So, we’re going to hear stories from a couple of the folks who went out for “Ashes to Go.” J: Good morning, I was one of the Ashes to Go people who went to the park and ride. There were about six of us gathered near where people get off the bus, and my main job was to hold the sign up that said, “Ashes to Go,” so as many people as possible could see it, but I was a part of some interactions there, and I found the whole thing to be moving to me and to other people also. There was one young couple there who drove up and asked one of us to go over to them. One of our members went to them, and they asked us to pray for them because they wanted to have a baby. So she prayed for them, not only that they would have a baby, but that God would bless them in ways to make their lives full. Many folks would come by, and some would look at us like “are you serious?”, and others would give us a big smile, some would say, “I went this morning.” It was a start, a good start, and I hope it will continue. Thank you. R: Good morning. For myself, it was also a very spiritual experience. Like our sister said, we had a sign that said, “Ashes to Go,” and next year we need three signs so we can spread out a bit more. The first person who came up to us said, “Is this for real?” During the hour we were there, so many people came up with different outward expressions of the Holy Spirit that had gone into them. Some were smiling. Some weren’t sure. There were people who’d be coming off the bus, and you could see that they were tired, but when they saw the sign, they got a skip in their step, they were smiling at us, and it was beautiful, it was wonderful. There was one lady who came up, and she had a lot on her mind; she was very quiet, and we asked if she would like to have ashes. She said, “no thank you,” and she walked past. Then she stopped and came back and asked for prayer for her son. So we prayed together for her son, and then she said, “Now I would like ashes.” So it was incredible to experience this, and I hope we all have the opportunity to do this again, and I will volunteer for next year. Thank you very much. L: Good day. I was not part of taking the ashes to the street, but Brad gave my family Ashes to Go, a little take home packet and Ash Wednesday service. For the past five years, I’ve been to St. Mark’s Episcopal for the 7:00 a.m. service since it fit my schedule, but this year, my schedule didn’t allow me to go to make that service, and my wife and I couldn’t make the evening service here, and Brad knew that, so he gave us Ashes to Go for our home. I mentioned it to a neighbor, who mentioned it to another neighbor, and we ended up with seven people in our home that evening, and we read through the service together. I started the service, and our daughter wanted to read the scripture. After she got through about a paragraph, she wanted to read the second scripture, and then the third scripture, and we had a little bit of a tug of war so my wife and I could read a scripture, and we all got our scripture in. From that, our neighbors were there and participating, and as Brad said, we didn’t bring Jesus to anyone, but we found him together in our house that night, and it was very moving. I think if anyone can do that and open up, which we all can, tell someone, and I will be part of next year’s on the street. I think that’s great, and I’ll make time. Thank you. We never know where or in whom we might encounter God, for God’s Spirit blows where it chooses, and we do not know where it comes from or where it goes. Beyond the Church, God’s Kingdom shows up all the time, in all kinds of different ways, from the mystical to the mundane. God’s Kingdom isn’t overly concerned with the artifices of any longed-for past because God’s Kingdom has been ever present in through and beyond all of our presents and all of our pasts. In ancient Israel, when a foreigner, Naomi, clung to her mother-in-law, Ruth’s, neck and said, “I will not leave you,” God’s Kingdom was present. When Jesus said, “neither do I condemn you,” and “Father forgive them,” God’s Kingdom was present. In 15th century England, in the birth of the Anglican Church, God’s Kingdom was present. During that same time, when Europeans began coming to this land, God’s Kingdom was present. God’s Kingdom was present in this land, in fact, long before Europeans arrived with Christianity, or was God not here yet? God’s Kingdom has been present during times of darkness in this land and during times of light. God’s Kingdom has been ever-present in this and every land throughout all time, showing up whenever and in whomever it would. Some, like Nicodemus, would see it and think, “that can’t be God’s Kingdom, it doesn’t fit with what I know.” Fortunately, God isn’t bound by what we know in our ties to the past. So it is with those who are born of the Spirit. They are babies once again, tethered to the past, but also free to live in the world as it is rather than as it was, free to be curious about the world, free to explore as all newborn babies do. Newborn babies, born not of the flesh, but of the Spirit, is what Jesus has formed us and called us to be, over and over again, to enter back into God’s womb and are then born once again. Jesus has sent us out to live and proclaim God’s Kingdom, wherever it happens to be, even in the crazy newness of our constantly changing world, and the ever-shifting sands of time upon which we travel.

Brad Sullivan 2 Lent, Year A March 12, 2017 Emmanuel, Houston John 3:1-17 Babies Crawling On the Ever-Shifting Sands of Time “They say that these are not the best of times, but they’re the only times I’ve ever known.” That’s from poet and prophet, Billy Joel, in the song Summer Highland Falls. That single idea, that these aren’t the best of times, but they are the only times I’ve ever known, that idea holds true for each new generation, doesn’t it? When we’re first born, the world doesn’t seem crazy and messed up. It just seems like the world, even if it is crazy and messed up. Then we get older and the world seems different, and we get older and the world seems even more different. The world changes more and more, until sometimes folks find themselves living in a world they no longer really recognize or understand. New folks move into the neighborhood and the neighborhood changes. The constant and regular practices of our religion become less constant, not at all regular, and the younger generations don’t do things the way we used to. Texting replaces written invitations to parties and other events. The interwebs replace print media. Star Wars gets taken over by Disney! Ways of life, unacceptable when we were children are now acceptable decades later. Whatever the changes, they’re happening all the time, all around us. We’re often longing for the past, or the good old days, or the way we did things “back in my day,” and into this longing for the past, this longing for some firm footing on the ever shifting sands of time, Jesus said, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born from above.” Well, if you are born from above, then what are you, or what is your spirit, but that of a newborn baby? See babies and children don’t long for the good old days. They see the world around them, and they can live in it and accept the world as it is. They can see God in the world all around them. The Kingdom of God is not hidden from the eyes of infants and children because they aren’t looking for God’s Kingdom in some longed-for and likely over-romanticized past. Infants and children can simply live into God’s Kingdom in the ever changing present. Our ties to the past are not a bad thing in and of themselves. They give us wisdom and some grounding in the ever-shifting sands of time, but those very ties to the past, when tied too tightly, end up binding us so that we can no longer move, and we see the sands a-shifting, we see the times a-changing, and we become afraid. That is how Nicodemus felt when he came to Jesus stating, “we know that you are a teacher who has come from God…” Nicodemus made a statement, declaring that Jesus was from God, but Nicodemus also came to Jesus at night. He was curious about Jesus, but he was also frightened. Jesus didn’t mesh with what he thought he knew about God’s Kingdom, and behind Nicodemus’ statement that Jesus had come from God, was a question. “How can it be that you come from God, when what you say and do, while like what God taught, seems so different from the religion that I know?” Something of what Jesus said and did resonated very deeply with Nicodemus. In Jesus, Nicodemus could see the Kingdom of God, and at the same time, Jesus was different than the religion of Nicodemus’ childhood and training, and the fear that Nicodemus felt at that difference was eclipsing his curiosity. Be born from above, Jesus said. Be a baby again, full of curiosity and without fear, trusting not in the past, but in God and God’s Kingdom all around you. In these first weeks of Lent, Emmanuel has decided to get curious about God and God’s Kingdom all around us. On Ash Wednesday, we had our regular services here, and we also changed how we’d always done things by bringing ashes and prayers with us out into the surrounding community for “Ashes to Go,” something churches have been doing close to about 10 years now, actually. We went out into the world, where Jesus already was, and we both offered moments of grace in the ashes and prayer, the holy things of our church, and we received moments of grace from the people we met. We didn’t bring Jesus to anyone. Jesus was already there, and we got to encounter Jesus together. So, we’re going to hear stories from a couple of the folks who went out for “Ashes to Go.” J: Good morning, I was one of the Ashes to Go people who went to the park and ride. There were about six of us gathered near where people get off the bus, and my main job was to hold the sign up that said, “Ashes to Go,” so as many people as possible could see it, but I was a part of some interactions there, and I found the whole thing to be moving to me and to other people also. There was one young couple there who drove up and asked one of us to go over to them. One of our members went to them, and they asked us to pray for them because they wanted to have a baby. So she prayed for them, not only that they would have a baby, but that God would bless them in ways to make their lives full. Many folks would come by, and some would look at us like “are you serious?”, and others would give us a big smile, some would say, “I went this morning.” It was a start, a good start, and I hope it will continue. Thank you. R: Good morning. For myself, it was also a very spiritual experience. Like our sister said, we had a sign that said, “Ashes to Go,” and next year we need three signs so we can spread out a bit more. The first person who came up to us said, “Is this for real?” During the hour we were there, so many people came up with different outward expressions of the Holy Spirit that had gone into them. Some were smiling. Some weren’t sure. There were people who’d be coming off the bus, and you could see that they were tired, but when they saw the sign, they got a skip in their step, they were smiling at us, and it was beautiful, it was wonderful. There was one lady who came up, and she had a lot on her mind; she was very quiet, and we asked if she would like to have ashes. She said, “no thank you,” and she walked past. Then she stopped and came back and asked for prayer for her son. So we prayed together for her son, and then she said, “Now I would like ashes.” So it was incredible to experience this, and I hope we all have the opportunity to do this again, and I will volunteer for next year. Thank you very much. L: Good day. I was not part of taking the ashes to the street, but Brad gave my family Ashes to Go, a little take home packet and Ash Wednesday service. For the past five years, I’ve been to St. Mark’s Episcopal for the 7:00 a.m. service since it fit my schedule, but this year, my schedule didn’t allow me to go to make that service, and my wife and I couldn’t make the evening service here, and Brad knew that, so he gave us Ashes to Go for our home. I mentioned it to a neighbor, who mentioned it to another neighbor, and we ended up with seven people in our home that evening, and we read through the service together. I started the service, and our daughter wanted to read the scripture. After she got through about a paragraph, she wanted to read the second scripture, and then the third scripture, and we had a little bit of a tug of war so my wife and I could read a scripture, and we all got our scripture in. From that, our neighbors were there and participating, and as Brad said, we didn’t bring Jesus to anyone, but we found him together in our house that night, and it was very moving. I think if anyone can do that and open up, which we all can, tell someone, and I will be part of next year’s on the street. I think that’s great, and I’ll make time. Thank you. We never know where or in whom we might encounter God, for God’s Spirit blows where it chooses, and we do not know where it comes from or where it goes. Beyond the Church, God’s Kingdom shows up all the time, in all kinds of different ways, from the mystical to the mundane. God’s Kingdom isn’t overly concerned with the artifices of any longed-for past because God’s Kingdom has been ever present in through and beyond all of our presents and all of our pasts. In ancient Israel, when a foreigner, Naomi, clung to her mother-in-law, Ruth’s, neck and said, “I will not leave you,” God’s Kingdom was present. When Jesus said, “neither do I condemn you,” and “Father forgive them,” God’s Kingdom was present. In 15th century England, in the birth of the Anglican Church, God’s Kingdom was present. During that same time, when Europeans began coming to this land, God’s Kingdom was present. God’s Kingdom was present in this land, in fact, long before Europeans arrived with Christianity, or was God not here yet? God’s Kingdom has been present during times of darkness in this land and during times of light. God’s Kingdom has been ever-present in this and every land throughout all time, showing up whenever and in whomever it would. Some, like Nicodemus, would see it and think, “that can’t be God’s Kingdom, it doesn’t fit with what I know.” Fortunately, God isn’t bound by what we know in our ties to the past. So it is with those who are born of the Spirit. They are babies once again, tethered to the past, but also free to live in the world as it is rather than as it was, free to be curious about the world, free to explore as all newborn babies do. Newborn babies, born not of the flesh, but of the Spirit, is what Jesus has formed us and called us to be, over and over again, to enter back into God’s womb and are then born once again. Jesus has sent us out to live and proclaim God’s Kingdom, wherever it happens to be, even in the crazy newness of our constantly changing world, and the ever-shifting sands of time upon which we travel.

Being born from above, we become like children again...spiritually speaking. We are God's children, and being born from above, we accept and live into who we truly are. As children, we delight in the world with childlike wonder; we trust in God; we need no great accomplishment to be of value. Our value comes simply because we are God's children.

Being born from above, we become like children again...spiritually speaking. We are God's children, and being born from above, we accept and live into who we truly are. As children, we delight in the world with childlike wonder; we trust in God; we need no great accomplishment to be of value. Our value comes simply because we are God's children.

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