Pilgrim’s creed

Pilgrim’s CreedLiving with our heavenly home in mind

① Born in Honduras, yet US citizen② Abe, the master pilgrim③ Moe, not dancing like an Egyptian④ Aliens on earth

Where we come from

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Philippians 3:20-21But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. (ESV)

Living with our backpacks ready

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2003-2009

① Divine Desert Directions② God was their Wagon-Master

Living with our backpacks ready

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Numbers 9:16-18So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night. And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped. At the command of the Lord the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the Lord they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

① Fleeing from Famine② Experiencing the Extraordinary, still skeptic

Enduring Rough Roads

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1 Corinthians 10:6-11Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play." We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. (ESV)

Romans 8:18-22In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” (ESV)

① Fleeing from Famine② Experiencing the Extraordinary, still skeptic③ The early Christians | Romans 8:18④ The late Christians | Psalms 34:18-19

Enduring Rough Roads

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Heart towards home

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Home

Hebrews 11:13-16These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. (ESV)

① Patriarchs, Pilgrims on the Promised Land② Joshua and Caleb waiting to return to their

inheritance

Heart towards home

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① Keep on running | Hebrews 12:1-3② Keep on fighting | 2 Timothy 4:6-8③ Stay faithful | Matthew 25:21④ Don’t lose hope | Hebrews 10:35-39

Arriving Home

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Hebrews 10:35-39Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. (ESV)

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