Adventurous Living - The Meadow Springs Community Church Podcast

Only a very thin facade needs to be pulled away from human decency before the ugly stuff is visible.

Sometimes the sound of our words gets drowned out by the volume of our actions. Want to point your kids to Jesus? Give 'em a little SHOW & TELL.

Jesus' first spoken words in the book of Mark caused a stirring among the people. What was all the fuss about? The gospel had been launched and it was time for them to make a choice about His kingdom.

The baptism and the temptation of Jesus connect back to the Old Testament plans and promises of God - He would send His Spirit to live in us and dwell among us; to walk beside us in our own wilderness experiences. Will we trust Him with everything?

Our relationship with our earthly mothers (or fathers) is imperfect at best and disastrous at its worst. Why? Because we are all broken and sinful. It is only with God that we can find a perfect and unbreakable attachment that surpasses anything here on earth.

It had been 400 years without a word from God. Then a guy shows up, having come from the desert, wearing a strange coat and long hair, wild and untamed, proclaiming the arrival of a King. This was some kind of announcement for sure, but were the people ready to hear it?

Jesus reminded His disciples before His departure into heaven to affirm and reflect on their faith in Him; trust and be confident of His love for them and be filled with hope, for He would return for them. Friends, this period of separation is only for a time and what a glorious day it will be when we unite, face to face, again.

Our bodies always tell us when we're hungry. If yours is like most families, there's some debate about what everyone is hungry for. It's the classic ritual of trying to pick a place to eat away from home. Our souls are also hungry and we can feel it...but what are we hungry for? Our hunger may feel vague and a bit hard to describe but God understood our hunger perfectly and sent His Son Jesus so that we may know Him.

So this is the question: If our salvation cost Jesus his own life blood and abandonment by His Father, what more could we pay? If He proclaims, "It is finished," what more could we do?

If anger or lust is on the menu, it is always for a party of one. They only work to separate and draw us away from the relationships God has placed in our lives.