Adventurous Living - The Meadow Springs Community Church Podcast

Jesus did not come to abolish the Law and the Old Testament. If we think "I've got to do all these things and do them this way", we'll never get it right. Jesus tells us He will instead fulfill the law. God knows we aren't capable of perfection and He promises to cleanse our hearts of flesh and provide for our ultimate redemption.

"You tell the truth... but not the whole truth," Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well. Why such a gentle approach? Because His purpose was to highlight her pain, not her sin. Jesus wanted to expose her real need - she thought she needed water to drink; but He knew that her thirst was much deeper.

Where Adam failed, Jesus succeeded. Where the nation of Israel failed, Jesus succeeded. Friends, where you and I have failed, Jesus has succeeded and He, the One undefeated by temptation, is our champion and our hope.

There's one problem with Christmas. We gear up, decorate, sing the carols, exchange the gifts then take down the decorations, put away the gifts and go on as before. For all the drama and festivity surrounding it, does the birth of that little baby - the Christ child - make any real difference in our lives?

Our Creator/Redeemer God - full of mercy and grace, patient with failure and overflowing with an unwavering love shown to a thousand generations. But, also perfect and holy and waits for us to turn back to Him.

God's purpose and plans often do not make sense to us. Some advise? Just go with the flow.

Love someone that is unloved - that is the ultimate act of rebellion.

God is the only one who is able to perform the sort of heart surgery we desperately need.

God has set before you blessings and cursings; life and death... choose life.

The danger of coming to church is that we can replace a real, personal and daily relationship with God with a once-a-week check-up. In other words, God will ignore us in our Sunday morning worship if we ignore Him in our week.