A Sure Hope

As you’ll learn from Pastor Dave in today’s message, tomorrow is not promised. So how are you using your time? What are you spending your days doing? Are you living the life God calls you to? Have you surrendered yourself to Him? If not, spend time at the feet of Jesus today and begin living fully in Him for He is good.

There have probably been many times in your life when you’ve attempted to make your own plans, only to discover that God had different ones. In today’s message, Pastor Dave will remind you that no one can change what God has planned. So rather than fight Him, why not surrender and trust that His ways are better?

Jesus was wrongly characterized by people who didn’t really know Him and this eventually led to His death. In today’s message, Pastor Dave discusses the danger of judging people based upon looks or what you’ve heard from others. Do you wrongly characterize people? What harm might this be causing?

God’s not interested in how you look or how smart you are. What God looks at is your heart. In today’s message, Pastor Dave will challenge you to not worry about the outward things, but to work on the inward things so your life reflects that of Christ. When people meet you, do they know that you spend time with Jesus?

As you listen to today’s message, Pastor Dave will teach on the danger of making your own rules. When you begin to put your own rules above or in place of the Word of God, you run the risk of doing what the Pharisees did. By making their own rules and judgments, they missed out on getting to know Jesus.

Our wisdom is pitiful compared to God’s. Yet, so often, we expect Him to conform to our reason and knowledge. If His will stretches outside of those bounds, our first reaction is to question its validity. Today, Pastor Dave will challenge us to submit our hearts and minds fully to God and His infinite wisdom.

God’s will can never be taken into your own hands. You have to humble yourself and submit to His power and guidance if you want to be successful in living out His mission for you. As Pastor Dave will warn in today’s message, when you cling to your pride and try to go it alone, you’ll fail miserably.

Sometimes when God calls us to act, it can feel crazy. In fact, most of the time, it feels crazy. The world around you will confirm that. They’ll laugh at you. They might do worse. But as Pastor Dave will illustrate today, when God speaks to your heart – don’t hesitate – just obey and prepare for the great things He’ll do through you.

Truth isn’t flexible or subjective. The ultimate truth we cling to is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He died and rose again to secure our redemption. He is Truth. As Pastor Dave will warn in today’s message, that message will earn you ridicule and rejection at the hands of men, but it bears great eternal rewards.

If you picture a shadow, it has two distinct regions – the darkness and the light. That offers a fitting metaphor for what Jesus did. The cross represented our sin, which casts our souls in darkness. But, as we’ll be reminded by Pastor Dave’s today, Christ brings light to darkness and offers righteousness to those who trust in Him.