My desire and commitment at the dawn of 2025 may be summarized with three words: return, refresh, renew. As I embark on my 65th year of life, I will to return to the hot-heart passion for Christ of my youth, pray for the refreshing wind of the Spirit to blow across and awaken every fiber of my being to my utmost for His highest, and determine to renew a sense of abandon to Christ and audacious adventurous faith in Him with whatever time left to me on this planet.
“The great word of Jesus to His disciples is Abandon. When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on His word; trust entirely to Him and watch that when He brings us to the venture, we take it.”
(Oswald Chambers, ‘Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers’)
DANE FOWLKES 