It is in knowing Christ that we find true confidence. For in knowing Christ, we can know God, and we can know ourselves. In knowing Christ we grow in our relationship with God and have a better understanding of why we are here. Life, then, becomes deeply meaningful, and we can move through it knowing God is with us. And that makes it all worthwhile.
- Oct 8, 2017Confidence
ConfidenceIt is in knowing Christ that we find true confidence. For in knowing Christ, we can know God, and we can know ourselves. In knowing Christ we grow in our relationship with God and have a better understanding of why we are here. Life, then, becomes deeply meaningful, and we can move through it knowing God is with us. And that makes it all worthwhile.
- Oct 1, 2017Working Out
Working Out
The best “work out” is to let God work it out. If it were up to us, we would rise, control, tell others what to do. But by having the mind of Christ, we turn ourselves over to the will of God. We choose to serve, we put others first, we listen and obey. Just like Jesus did. And there we find our salvation. - Sep 17, 2017The Power of Reconciliation
The Power of Reconciliation
God has called us to the ministry of bringing people together. Each of us by having respect for others, sharing our experiences with others, listening and learning from the perspective of others, can have compassion for others and come together with them in love. God has done it with us. Now we are called to be reconciled to others. - Sep 3, 2017Love in Action
Love in Action
The basis of our code of ethics is the character of God. God is good and God is love. We can trust God. And God wants us to experience the joy of living in a relationship of trust. God wants us to be trustworthy. To live in a way that we can gain the trust of others. Let’s put our love into action...let’s do the right thing...let’s live with the character of God at the center of our lives.
- Aug 27, 2017Gifts that Differ
Gifts that Differ
God has given to each of us something special, a gift that can help us connect with and serve others, a gift that can help us understand our purpose in life, a gift that can help us to “discern God’s will.” Our gift can be fully realized and appreciated if we give ourselves as “living sacrifices” to God. Not using our gift for selfish gain, but for a higher purpose. As we discover and grow together in our gifts, let us appreciate our “gifts that differ.” And let us always thank God for the ultimate gift of our relationship with him. - Aug 20, 2017Prayer for All People
Prayer for All People
God has been involved in His Creation from the beginning. Each and every moment the Holy Spirit has been moving...from “over the face of the deep” to the events of last week...in our lives and in the lives of others. Let us pray that we may grow in our understanding...like Jesus grew. So we can see God at work all around us. In our lives and in the lives of others. Let’s trust in God. And let’s rejoice that our prayers can be a part of the prayers of all people. - Aug 13, 2017Doing What Jesus Did
Doing What Jesus Did
As Christians we are blessed to know God as Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We can know God as creator and communicator. God in flesh. God moving in our lives. As we seek to know God more deeply...as Jesus asks us to “come” and follow him...even if it means walking to him on the water in a storm...God’s word tells us that we can make Peter’s story our own. We too can have bold faith. We too can walk with God like we never thought possible because God is inviting us to come.
- Aug 6, 2017Walking with a Limp
Walking with a Limp
God wants to bless us. Not just to give us happiness, health, prosperity, and special talents. God wants to sanctify us...to set us apart from the ordinary. To give us the chance to experience the difference of living day to day in God's presence. And God wants us to share that experience with others. Through surrendering all that we are to all that God is, we can have the eternal and abundant life that we were created for in the first place. - Jul 30, 2017Two Daughters
Two Daughters
Can we recognize both Rachel and Leah (Love and Obligation) in our lives? Can we live our lives without focusing on one or the other. Can we shift our attention instead to the work God is doing in us and among us...taking us one step at a time deeper into the life and the land that God has prepared for and promised to us?
- Jul 23, 2017The Gate of Heaven
The Gate of Heaven
God wants relationship with us. A relationship built on trust. God has made so many promises to us...all of them are ultimately a guarantee of life and life more abundant. We have an opportunity to respond to God’s promises with faith. Will we be able to respond like Jacob? Will we say about our own lives…“Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it!”...“How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” - Jul 16, 2017Good Dirt
Good Dirt
If we are Good Dirt, we will be (Learning) Understanding...Enduring...Focusing on and Discovering...Bearing Fruit for the Kingdom of God. - Jul 9, 2017What am I doing
What am I doing
We can only see as much wholeness and peace in the world around us as we experience wholeness and peace in our own lives. We can only see as much of Christ in the world around us as we experience Christ in our own lives. We cannot see a better world, until we experience a better life for ourselves. We cannot see Christ at work in the world, until we see Christ at work in our own lives. - Jul 2, 2017The Ultimate Test
The Ultimate Test
- Jun 25, 2017Dead to Sin
Dead to Sin
Jesus summed up the law and the prophets “Love the Lord your God” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” We are not created for rules. We are created for relationships. Let’s do our best to deepen them. And let’s be thankful for them. - Jun 4, 2017If You Forgive
If You Forgive
In a strange way, the offense and forgiveness may help us to fully enter the Kingdom...as we are forced to go deeper into our understanding of who we truly are...one with God.
