The Wake-Up Call

We can’t become perfect parents, but we can become parents of extraordinary grace.

Christian marriage serves as a type of everyday temple where Christ reveals himself through the sacrificial love of husband and wife.

The fruit of surrender is splendor.

The Word of God reveals a model of power that centers around the surrender of control and the reversal of hierarchy.

Human beings, created in the image of God, are made to be inhabited by the Holy Spirit.

What if we are all asleep?

This is not about broken rules but broken people, not condemning labels but creative love.

Sexual sin is sin of another order because of the way it breaks down and fragments our core identity and does damage to the image of God in us.

As image-bearers of the triune God, we are meant to live this graced pattern of life together for the sake of each other and the world.

The effectiveness of our mission to the world is in direct proportion to the quality of our relationships with each other.

We grieve the Holy Spirit when we deny the power of God in our everyday lives.

With our words we can bless or curse, build up or tear down, berate or benefit.

To be created in the image of God means many things, but perhaps the most surprising thing it means is to be vulnerable.

In this episode, Dan Wilt and J. D. engage in a profound conversation about spiritual formation and the power of the Holy Spirit. They explore the history and impact of the Vineyard Movement, emphasizing the importance of living out one's faith actively rather than passively. Through personal stories and reflections, they discuss the transformative power of Jesus in everyday life, encouraging listeners to take risks in faith and partner with God in their daily interactions. The episode is a call to action for believers to awaken to their spiritual potential and engage in a life of love and service. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Join us starting May 25 for All The Things ► https://my.seedbed.com/product/all-the-things-wake-up-call-workbook/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Wake-Up Call is funded by generous givers like you at https://sowextravagantly.com/ Get the Wake-Up Call in your email each day ► https://seedbed.com/wakeupcall ⛪️ Are you a pastor? We'd love to connect ► https://seedbed.typeform.com/to/dymjFhUB Join the Field Team and help us sow the Wake-Up Call into new hearts ► https://seedbed.typeform.com/fieldteam Join the conversation: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/seedbedwakeupcall/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewakeupcall/ Listen to the podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wake-up-call/id1040184070Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7t5qb5dpC7n0yxdyNsTKzTsi=e87495c982f145f6

This most essential process of transformation, of becoming a human being who lives and loves like God lives and loves, will not happen apart from other people.

A martyr, in the New Testament sense, is not someone who is going to die for Jesus but someone who has already died with him—and been raised from the dead!

We must learn to take off our masks and meet one another in our places of weakness rather than our strength

We need these gifts in order for the body of Christ to be built up in order for the love of God to be manifest through the people of God that the world may come to know Jesus.

There is no pattern of the cross apart from the person of Jesus. It’s why we follow him.

In the end it won’t matter what church you were a part of. Only one thing will matter: Are you part of the one body?

The one category to which all the followers of Jesus belong is the category of the called.

The Spirit works directly and humanly, yet supernaturally, through men and women.

The pure and powerful essence and nature of God is love.

Faith is the Holy Spirit–infused realm of human activity by which the awakening movement of divine grace moves in the world.

The gospel is not information and cogitation. It is revelation and transformation.

Have you considered what might be the stewardship of God’s grace given to you for others?

The mission of the gospel will be accomplished in and through our relationships, or not at all.

The secret to peace is found here: in his own body on the cross.

Jesus, we want you to be more of the centerpiece of our lives.

Grace is the infectious, transforming embrace of God.

For this special bonus episode, we're bringing J. D.'s opening talk at our recent Pastor's Retreat. We hope you enjoy J. D.'s reflection on Jesus' invitation to "Come with me, by yourselves, to a quiet place, and get some rest."

All we must do is say yes to Jesus with our lives. He has done everything else.

We tend to live at the level of our behaviors, which are themselves symptomatic of a deeper problem. Sinful behavior is a symptom. Our sinful nature is the problem.

This is the way of holy discontent. It is a willingness to question and doubt everything but the Word of God.

Followers of Jesus, you are seekers of the first order, whose appetite is not satisfied by discovery but deepened.

We need not confront the sick with scorn. We only need to present them with the cure, backed up, of course, by the evidence of its working in our own lives.

God has a plan, but it’s not for my life. The plan is his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

We will discover our blessedness to the degree we face our brokenness.

Because I belong to Jesus, all that belongs to Jesus belongs to me.

Real Christianity is about belonging exclusively and entirely to Jesus—simply, totally, gloriously.

 We do not live our lives for God. We live our lives from God. We do not work for Jesus. We work from Jesus.

Faith is not believing the right things about Jesus. Faith is believing Jesus.

How deep is my desire for Jesus?

And what does the change look like? It looks like the movement from darkness to light, from death to life, and from chaos to new creation

We must first receive the love of Jesus, which is to receive Jesus and all he is.

We plant the seed and we harvest the crop, but the journey from seed to seeds is the work and will of God.

What if change happens not by resolve but by repentance?

And I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.

“Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Jesus knows the issue is at the level of our will. He wants access to our volition.