Navigating Life's Highway
Posted by: kim
Almost five years ago, God birthed The Edge in my mind. I prayerfully tried to follow His leading, committing every aspect of this ministry to Him before it was ever launched. Over the last several months, I have felt God leading me to close The Edge and redirect my energies. The Edge has been His ministry from the beginning. He had a purpose for The Edge and I trust He has fulfilled that purpose. It has been an incredible honor to serve as the vessel through which God has been able to speak and minister. He has blessed me through each of you in ways I cannot begin to articulate; it has been an amazing ride!
This will be the last newsletter. I want to thank and acknowledge the guidance and devotion of our current Board of Directors: Nate Drye (chairman,) Janice Brogden, Justin Faucette, Robert Kinney, and Haven Parrott. They obeyed God’s call and served faithfully alongside me. For them I am truly grateful.
I will keep the website up through June 30th. Please make use of the search tool under the archives, if you like. There are many newsletters on science, history, and current culture. You may like to print out copies of any Edges of interest, perhaps to reference later.
If you’d like to stay in touch, I welcome that! Please email me anytime. I will continue to answer all emails and will always be available to help in any way that I am able.
Please join me in celebrating what God has been able to do through The Edge. He is so good. To Him be all glory! May you never forget to seek God’s strength in standing strong in your faith. And may He bless you always,
Ms. Kim Kinney
An old man was driving down the highway when his cell phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s urgent voice warning him, “Fred, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on the Interstate. Please be careful!!!”
“It’s not just one car,” said Fred, “It’s hundreds of ‘em!!!”
Do you ever feel like that? Like you’re zipping down the highway, but you’re continually being bombarded. One thing after another flies at you at top speed. You try dodging the seduction of alcohol. You narrowly escape the power of drugs. The music and media create a strong suction that pulls you in as you brace against the wheel and try to race past. You screech past the illegal parties at an alarming rate, miraculously without getting sideswiped. In the frenzy of the onslaught of cars, you try to steer clear of sexual temptation and the lure of hook-ups. You swerve to avoid colliding with a worldview you know contradicts everything you stand for. You feel like you’re the only one traveling this way…against the “cultural” traffic. It’s so hard and takes every ounce of concentration you can muster!
But wait. Is this highway any different than the highway Jesus traveled when he walked this earth? In appearance, maybe. But the underlying issues haven’t changed. It was all about either being “tolerant” of the temptations of the day or choosing to buck the flow of traffic.
Is there a secret to surviving life’s highway? You bet! Take a moment; slow down; read God’s very words. They will transform you! (As you read, note how little has changed in 2000 years!)
“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that
you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God.
You’ll be changed from the inside out…
Unlike the culture around you,
always dragging you down
to its level of immaturity,
God brings the best out of you.”
(Romans 12:2)
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This will be the last newsletter. I want to thank and acknowledge the guidance and devotion of our current Board of Directors: Nate Drye (chairman,) Janice Brogden, Justin Faucette, Robert Kinney, and Haven Parrott. They obeyed God’s call and served faithfully alongside me. For them I am truly grateful.
I will keep the website up through June 30th. Please make use of the search tool under the archives, if you like. There are many newsletters on science, history, and current culture. You may like to print out copies of any Edges of interest, perhaps to reference later.
If you’d like to stay in touch, I welcome that! Please email me anytime. I will continue to answer all emails and will always be available to help in any way that I am able.
Please join me in celebrating what God has been able to do through The Edge. He is so good. To Him be all glory! May you never forget to seek God’s strength in standing strong in your faith. And may He bless you always,
Ms. Kim Kinney
Navigating Life’s Highway
An old man was driving down the highway when his cell phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s urgent voice warning him, “Fred, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on the Interstate. Please be careful!!!”
“It’s not just one car,” said Fred, “It’s hundreds of ‘em!!!”
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Do you ever feel like that? Like you’re zipping down the highway, but you’re continually being bombarded. One thing after another flies at you at top speed. You try dodging the seduction of alcohol. You narrowly escape the power of drugs. The music and media create a strong suction that pulls you in as you brace against the wheel and try to race past. You screech past the illegal parties at an alarming rate, miraculously without getting sideswiped. In the frenzy of the onslaught of cars, you try to steer clear of sexual temptation and the lure of hook-ups. You swerve to avoid colliding with a worldview you know contradicts everything you stand for. You feel like you’re the only one traveling this way…against the “cultural” traffic. It’s so hard and takes every ounce of concentration you can muster!
But wait. Is this highway any different than the highway Jesus traveled when he walked this earth? In appearance, maybe. But the underlying issues haven’t changed. It was all about either being “tolerant” of the temptations of the day or choosing to buck the flow of traffic.
Is there a secret to surviving life’s highway? You bet! Take a moment; slow down; read God’s very words. They will transform you! (As you read, note how little has changed in 2000 years!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that
you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God.
You’ll be changed from the inside out…
Unlike the culture around you,
always dragging you down
to its level of immaturity,
God brings the best out of you.”
(Romans 12:2)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“And so I insist … that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God, but with reality itself. They can’t think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion. But that’s no life for you. You learned Christ! … we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything – and I do mean everything – connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life – a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces His character in you.”
(Ephesians 4:17-24)
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