What is your one mission in life? How do we decide?

God calls all of his people to "show up" - but show up with what?

Do you really believe that God has called you to fully show up in this life he has given you? All of you?

What if we prayed this God-given prayer before we brushed our teeth, opened our phones, and checked our emails?

Christians at the foot of the cross don't leverage their social advantages to "win" - instead we yield our advantages for the sake of the vulnerable. How does this play out for our daily lives?

What does it mean to be a community of the cross? The first thing Paul teaches is that a community of the cross is awake to their biggest problem: sin. When we make peace with sin we endanger ourselves and our church. But a church that take their sin seriously is a church that also takes grace seriously.

Imitation is inevitable - so chose wisely who you imitate. Paul demonstrates a vision of discipleship in the church.

Why pray?

The cross of Jesus not only saves us, but shapes us: into beggars, sojourners, and givers.

When we live for other's praise - we are living under the tyranny of scrutiny. That is the life we know. But is there a way to be free from all that? Paul provides a truth that enables him to say: "it matters very little how others scrutinize me."