How we shape our future is best determined by why.

How do we assess what we are told? What has the greater authority? For Christians, it is Jesus, the Word of God.

With the weight of sin and evil so suffocating, what do we do?

Encountering the Word of God always has consequences. God wants everyone to follow Jesus and have the best adventure in the world.

We need skill and expertise to get jobs done. But living is more than just one job after another.

Alarms are meant to be noticed. Yet they can be ignored. At Pentecost and from then on the Holy Spirit has been active focusing people on Jesus. Will the world hear?

Knowing how and why we know what we know helps us live.

In a world of public and private, inside and out, having someone who sees all might be confronting, even fearful. But when it is Jesus who sees all, sees us inside and out, and loves us – then it is life changing every day. His love can cast out all fear.

Jesus’ message and promise was given to comfort not control, to lift up not lock down, and, above all, to set people free by promising to remain with us.

God loves us all – everyone – and us individually – and Jesus’ death and resurrection tells us that God wants us to live – with Him – and with others. And then we – as individuals – can live so that the many around us can be blessed.