Christ’s Example of Service
John 13:14-15 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you....
Good Friday: Power for the Powerless
Jesus, who is all powerful, cares about the powerless. As we celebrate Good Friday during Holy Week let us come alongside the marginalized in the world. Let us stand with the poor and powerless. ...
Tug of War
In our world today we see a tug of war when it comes to the values of the world and those of the crucified Savior. We are being pulled, and sometimes pushed into places of compromise. ...
God of Hope
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope....
Empty Yourself
Like Jesus we are called to empty ourselves, to take on the cares and concerns of others. To walk in the shoes and stories of someone else. ...
Lent Day 40: Going the Wrong Direction
Many of you may have taken a wrong road in life, but today Jesus is giving us the sign of his love and he is inviting you and me to turn around and come home. ...
Lent Day 39: Is the Lord Among Us?
We are prone to forget the Lord who has delivered us from perilous times in our lives...
Lent Day 38: The Hidden Power of Christ
It is the hidden power of Christ that really moves mountains in our lives. ...
Lent Day 37: No Cheap Imitations
Let us not settle for imitation faith because it is cheaper. But let us choose the discipline of true life....
Lent Day 36: Life Out of Death
The wonderful truth of the gospel is that God through Jesus Christ brings life out of death. ...
Lent Day 34: Consider Your Calling
We have always been called to live counter to the social systems of the day. That could not be more true than right now in our nation’s history. ...
Lent Day 35: No Condemnation
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus...
Lent Day 33: Waking Up to God’s Love
As we journey through this life, we have moments when the light bulb comes on and lets us know there is a better way to live and leave the lesser things behind. ...
Lent Day 32: Ordinary Problems, Extraordinary Power
We all need to be reminded that while we have ordinary problems and we are ordinary people, our lives are infused and informed by an extraordinary power that allows us to overcome these challenges. ...
Lent Day 31: With God All Things are Possible
Deliver us from the shackles of “yes, but” and free us to sing songs of miracles. ...
Lent Day 30: Do Not Fear
We do not have to fear, because the one who formed us and rescued us holds us secure. ...
Lent Day 29: Waiting
God uses waiting as his way to prepare us for the future he has for us...
Lent Day 28: God of the Gnats
Throughout the Bible and even in our lives there are stories of death. But the gospel is a story of life that emerges out of death. ...
Lent Day 27: Do Not Fear, For I Am With You
For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you....
Lent Day 26: Finding Promise Through Pain
Out of adversity come great opportunities to trust and depend on God. Let us allow this season to be a new season where our pain propels us to experience his promises and our possibilities in him. ...
Lent Day 25: Turning Deserts into Green Pastures
Jesus meets us in places that we least expect it. He takes our deserts and makes them a place of green pasture, where we can lie down and rest. ...
Lent Day 24: Blessings Despite Suffering
Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Sometimes it can be hard to see and embrace that we are blessed, based on what we see sometimes. But rest assured from our text today, God wants us to be blessed. ...
Lent Day 23: God’s Plans Are Better Than Ours
Many of us start out with grand plans in life, and many of them are good plans, but God always has the best plans for our lives. ...
Lent Day 22: Slow Down
As we move through our Lenten journey lets allow the Lord to slow us down and simplify our lives, even as it relates to beginning and maintaining a relationship with him. ...
Lent Day 21: We Are Not in Control
When the days are darkest, and we have tried everything to fix it, or change it. It is in these moments that we are ready for the Lord Jesus to step in and bring about a change. ...
Lent Day 20: Walking in Our Brokenness
New life will occur only if we are willing to walk with Jesus, in our honest brokenness before Jesus and our honest fellowship with others in that brokenness. ...
Lent Day 19: Sing a New Song
We all want a fresh start to life as we look to Easter and the season of Spring. This is the time for the church to be the church and take the risk to be courageous and sing the song that is the power of the gospel, as an affirmation that will not let the world remain as it is. ...
Lent Day 18: Hidden Ministry
With God public and private ministry are all the same. It all is dependent on his power. And he alone determines the preparation and then the practical execution of that power. ...
Lent Day 17: Starting Over
Like Nicodemus we have to be willing to let go of all the things we depend on to make us self-sufficient. We have to start over as vulnerable, innocent and dependent people. Otherwise, we will remain cutoff from the life that God offers us in Jesus Christ. ...
Lent Day 16: Being Caught by God
The Lord is chasing after you, not to wrestle control from you, but inviting you to surrender control to him and allow him to wrap his arms of love around you....
Lent Day 15: Biblical Justice
Biblical Justice: The equitable and impartial application of the rule of God’s moral law in society. Our nation’s on-going experience with COVID-19 has allowed us all to slow down and take a hard look at parts of our life that we may often neglect. For believers, it is a time for sober reflection on the things we often forget. ...
Lent Day 14: Receiving God’s Gift of Love
During our forty-day journey of the Lenten season, people often consider what they have to give up as a way to be closer to God. While those disciplines can be helpful, if practiced in the wrong spirit, it can be performance driven in an attempt to earn or win the favor of God. We can never earn God’s love, but we receive it as a gift from Him. ...
Lent Day 13: I Once Was Blind, But Now I See
Before we come to Christ, we are blind to him and the life he wants to give us. After we come to him and receive new life, we still have blind spots of old truth that must be removed. The cataracts of old thinking have to be transformed so we can see clearly; then we can love more dearly the one who gives sight and those he has given us to love, including our enemies. ...
Lent Day 12: Hearing God’s Voice in the Darkness
During this season of Lenten reflection, allow yourself to be open to hear the voice of God, even at night. ...
Lent Day 11: Respect the Presence of God
It is one thing to be in the presence of the king. It is quite another to be in the presence of “The King” of all creation. ...
Lent Day 10: Blessed Are You Who Weep
At some point in our life we will experience grief and loss, whether it be large or small. It is for this reason that we should not run from it, but embrace the loss, and allow Jesus to walk us through it. ...
Lent Day 9: Make Room for the Other
It will be challenging to be inclusive of “the other”, but it is a risk that we have been called to take as followers of Christ. ...
Lent Day 8: God’s Faithfulness
In spite of our failures in the past, God wants to remind us of his willingness to give us a second chance. ...
Lent Day 7: When I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong
It is in the places where we are most vulnerable and incapable of overcoming so many challenges on our own, that Christ’s power is most readily seen and revealed to us and through us....
Lent Day 6: Grace and Mercy On God’s Terms
If we are going move beyond our failures into God’s prosperous future for us in Christ, to experience His way of graciousness and mercy, it will be on God's terms, and not ours. ...
Lent Day 5: Come, Everyone Who Thirsts
There is a water that will satisfy their spiritual thirst, and ours, that comes at no cost to us. While this free water that gives life, and satisfies our thirst is offered free to us, it cost Jesus Christ his life to make it free to us. ...
Lent Day 1: Avoid Assimilation
In our churches today we have to be careful that we are not “assimilated” into the culture and loss our identity in Christ. It is for that reason that we should consider a type of lenten season as we prepare for Easter....
Lent Day 2: “On the Road Again”
A famous country singer named Willie Nelson has a popular song entitled, “On the Road Again.” It's a song that talks about the journey of life you take with people as you travel through life. As believers we are all on a journey with Christ and one another....
Lent Day 4: Temptation
As we walk this journey together, we are assured of God’s presence, comfort and “assuring voice.” But along this journey we encounter another voice that seeks to derail our future. ...
Lent Day 3: Do Not Be Anxious
With so many things to be anxious about in the world, and no way to really make any of these events stop on our own, maybe we should take a new approach to life, not in the absence of the problems that plague us, but in the midst of them. ...
Be Slow to Anger
When I look at our culture and what is going on in our world, so many people are angry or frustrated with where we are as a nation, and what is even taking place in our own neighborhoods. ...
Be Fruitful and Multiply
As we begin this New Year we can be encouraged that our Lord, from the beginning of creation called us to be fruitful and multiply. My prayer is that you begin this year, with roots that grows deep and fruit that grows large, so that you are blessed and are a blessing to many. A life that glorifies God, and is for the good of many. ...
Make a Joyful Noise
As we read verses 1 thru 7 of Psalm 95, let's be reminded that our God is not just good, but very good, and He is worthy of our praise and adulation for who He is and all that he has done. The Psalm admonishes us to make a joyful noise. ...
Caring, Sharing & Serving During COVID-19
Your generosity is helping keep families safe and secure during this pandemic. ...
Relationships - Beyond Rejection
So many of us, myself included, have experienced rejection or felt rejected (perceived or real) at home, work, school and even during play. In this series we are going to face the stronghold of rejection, take off the old shackles of what other people think of us, and what we think or ourselves, and walk in the freedom of who Jesus Christ says I am. ...
Chosen - Part 1
We want to welcome you to our new and improved website. One of the new features that we are providing is a blog that allows you to receive encouraging message and words of support. ...
Chosen - Part 3
I hope in this opening blog you can begin to see that no matter your circumstances, surroundings, success or failures that when we know who we are we can rest in Him as His Chosen vessel....
Chosen - Part 2
In John 15:16 we find Jesus speaking to the disciples in what I consider one of the greatest discourses in scripture by our Lord. It starts in Chapter 14 and continues to chapter 17. ...
Lent Day 12: Hearing God’s Voice in the Darkness
During this season of Lenten reflection, allow yourself to be open to hear the voice of God, even at night. ...
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