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9.10.26 4Markers Live "The Origin Of Your Purpose"
Here's our discussion frameset for the evening: "The origin of purpose is the intentional design of God preceding our existence, expressed through our created capacities, distorted by sin, recovered through redemption, and progressively embodied through transformation into faithful stewardship and generational legacy." - Intention → Design → Distortion → Redemption → Transformation → Stewardship → Legacy. I'll do a 10-minute monologue(instruction), and then we'll have a dialogue. Below are 7 questions to help you prepare for our discussion. Hard start: 7:30 PM. 1. What have I allowed to define my purpose—God’s design, or my performance, pain, success, failure, approval, or circumstances? 2. What natural strengths, capacities, personality traits, and life experiences seem to reveal clues about how I was designed to contribute? 3. Where has sin, fatherlessness, rejection, fear, ambition, or self-protection distorted the way I understand or pursue my purpose? 4. What parts of my identity have become attached to an assignment, title, career, relationship, or role rather than to who I am before the Father? 5. What has redemption in Christ restored in me that I once believed was lost, wasted, disqualified, or beyond recovery? 6. Where is the Holy Spirit currently calling me beyond awareness into actual transformation—changing how I think, live, lead, love, or steward what has been entrusted to me? 7. If I lived fully aligned with the Father’s intention for my life, what would I need to begin, stop, surrender, develop, or intentionally pass on to the next generation? Hope this helps! barry/fs
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I like this, a little preemptive approach. Lots to cover in an hour, but I'm thinking I will pick one or two questions that stand out to me and ask/answer/or expound on that. Great stuff Barry. Thank you for putting it together.
27d •
I Feel You'd Benefit—Sermon Series Studying Scriptre Properly 1-4
Scott V. and I attend Alliance Church-Appleton. Our Church just completed a series on Biblical Hermeneutics. It is about how to study Scripture, including a sermonic exercise, well-executed hermeneutics, exegesis, and correct Biblical interpretation—dismantling poor exegesis that freely misquotes and misinterprets a passage due to ignorance, ill intent, or misuse of Scripture. My goal is to expose you to other voices who are wise, experienced, and well-equipped to teach properly, exhibiting strong hermeneutic and exegetical practices. I've included the YouTube Sermon and a PDF for broadening your skill set. Let me know how this worked for you. Would you like to see more of this from FS? Hope this is helpful. barry/fs
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I love this: "If you belong to God, through Christ, you can be confident that He will use any and everything you go through, to make you more like Jesus."
14d •
Counterfeit Wisdom W5: "Forgive and Forget"
For more weekly content from Tuesday Night Theology, check out Scott's weekly devo on Substack. 🔻 COUNTERFEIT WISDOM “Forgive and Forget” Forgiveness is at the very center of the gospel. We are forgiven people, and because we have been forgiven, Scripture repeatedly commands us to forgive others. But there is a problem with the phrase “forgive and forget.” The first half is biblical. The second half is not. FORGIVENESS IS A COMMAND Rightly Read.
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I love this section. All too often I think I can't outright forgive someone because they'll think everything is fine and go right back to whatever it is that they did/said. Someone can be forgiven and still face consequences. Someone can be forgiven and still need accountability. Someone can be forgiven and still need boundaries. Someone can be forgiven without immediately being restored to the same position they once occupied It is nice to know that is only my thinking and not Gods
Aug 4 •
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Congratulations @Ryan LaCount on the arrival of your new child!! May God bless your family to such an overflow that you continue it forward.
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Thank you gentleman
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@Mark Oleck thank you
Jul 31 •
When is enough enough?
Cutting to the chase with no enticing hook, huge promises, or fantastic offer. Here’s a question: “When is enough enough?” Now all you over-thinkers stop the analysis, categorizing, compartmentalizing and risk assessment—answer the question. Just doing that is certainly in itself a most difficult tasking, huh? There are many questions every man faces daily that require responses. But, here, I’m asking about the questions you ask yourself and the answers that surface. Pro Tip: long term or chronic unanswered questions lead to dysfunctional distraction, depression, frustration and confusion. Broad river to cross when discussing the logistics and strategy required to answer these questions. I’m not side tracking there for now. Here’s the right now focus—the question that is the background music for our discussion today —“When is enough enough?” It certainly seems that the space between the question and answer can be the toughest space to navigate. That topography is some of the toughest we face. So start here. For now, let’s start with you and God (Hashem, Abba, YHVW). “What’s enough for Him?” Then, the same for you, “What’s enough for you?” Ground rules: 1. “I don’t know” is not an answer. 2. No response is a response. 3. No baffling with bull. Respond and then tag another to respond. If they’re not in the FS Skool community invite them to join the convo. Here’s the link: Join the FS Skool conversation. barry/fs
1 like • Aug 5
@Barry Edgemon great question. I also love this "Pro Tip: long term or chronic unanswered questions lead to dysfunctional distraction, depression, frustration and confusion." To answer, when is enough enough? In the flesh it isn't. We all have a God sized hole we try to fill with stuff or substances or women and like all of Ecclesiastes states: it's all vanity, a vapor. I used to read Matthew 26:41 "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” and think oh the flesh is weak like it was a skinny little man trying to pick something up, but it's weak in every way. It folds to temptation, to comfort, to ease, to complacency. The flesh is weak in the way that it looks for the large, easy path not the road less traveled. I can know this and see it happen in myself all the time. In conversations with my wife, in how I discipline my kids, how I approach a problem client at work, how I respond to the Holy Spirits prompts, etc. I can know the pitfalls and yet still choose them because my flesh is weak. When I choose to follow the spirit, it's hard, uncomfortable, testing, it forces me to persevere, to push forward, and in the end is fulfilling and rewarding in a way I never knew. God is good, but he isn't safe or easy. God is wanting you to take the narrow less traveled path, but that isn't comfortable or simple and looks crazy to the world around you. When is enough enough? I think when you can readily listen and obey God's voice without a fight or a whining or a "oh man, cmon God, why that or why this person.". Peace beyond understanding is great, but obedience in faith is where the work is.
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