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If you are human, you have experienced brokenness. Brokenness is the sin that happens to us, the sin that happens around us, and the sin that happens through us. If brokenness is an inevitable part of life, what do we do with it? How do we heal? This week, we explore the power of vulnerability and how God uses our brokenness to bring about healing for others.

In response to the recent wave of mass shootings across our nation, we took time this weekend to lament and pray together as a community. Pastor Mickey shares a brief exhortation about how God calls us to respond as the Church in this hour.

On our journey through life and discipleship, we eventually hit what's known to many believers as "the wall." The wall is the place where there is no more certainty, the place where we begin to deconstruct all we once held so firmly. How do we navigate our season at the wall well? And what do we do until Jesus leads us to the other side?

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. In other words, we often see the world through the lens of our past. Part of the journey toward emotionally healthy spirituality is recognizing, acknowledging, and breaking free from the power of the past that holds us back, going back in order to move forward. This week, we explore how our family of origin plays a huge part in shaping who we are and how we can align to God's heart in shaping our future.

Have you ever felt the pressure to be who others expected you to be? Or became someone different in order to feel loved and accepted? In our quest to find love, value, and worth, many of us have become people God never intended us to be. How do we shed off this false self and become who we were created to be? This week in our journey toward Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, we explore the Self.

We often value the "spiritual" over every other aspect of our God-given humanity—the physical, the intellectual, the social, and especially the emotional. Yet, we discover that it's impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Emotional health is a vital piece of our spiritual formation. This week, we catch God's heart and vision for wholeness in our lives, as we begin our new collection, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

Have you ever found yourself at a place in life where you ask yourself, "How did I end up here?" We often drift through stretches of life aimlessly and end up surprised that we're not where or who we want to be. How do we keep ourselves from drifting? This week, we pause and ask Holy Spirit to help us assess where we are, as we realign our hearts to what God has for us this year.

Jesus didn't come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people come alive. We spend so much time talking about life after death, but what about life before death? Life in Jesus is life in fullness. Easter isn't just an event we attend, it's a people we are called to become.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Is there any other verse in the Bible that contradicts the ethos of our age more than this verse? In our world, blessed are the opportunists, the aggressive, the violent, the loud and proud go-getters. Yet Jesus said the world is promised to those who are meek. Despite what many believe, meekness is not weakness. What does it look like to walk in meekness? And what is the inheritance promised to the meek?

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Being poor in spirit, means being aware of our brokenness and inviting God into these empty spaces. It’s realizing and living into the inconvenient truth that we were not designed to do this alone or by our own strength.