God is love (1 Jn. 4:8). Therefore, God gets to define what it looks, feels, tastes, smells, and sounds like.

God’s love smells differently. It’s an aroma, not an odor. God’s love was meant to attract, not repulse, though we recognize not everyone is attracted to how God’s love smells.

2 Corinthians 2:15 TLB - 15 As far as God is concerned there is a sweet, wholesome fragrance in our lives. It is the fragrance of Christ within us, an aroma to both the saved and the unsaved all around us.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV - 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Picture your life as a smell and seek to have a love that’s an aroma instead of an odor.

Presented by Pastor Rob Guiller

God is love (1 Jn. 4:8). Therefore, God gets to define what it looks, feels, tastes, smells, and sounds like.

God’s love tastes different.

God is good. We are called to bear good-tasting fruit. When people taste us, will they taste and see that the Lord is good?

Galatians 5:22-23 NLT - 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

Psalm 34:8 NLT - 8 Taste and see that the Lord is good.

Produce the fruit of God’s Spirit, and you will taste like the goodness of God.

Presented by Graham Kelly

God is love (1 Jn. 4:8). Therefore, God gets to define what it looks, feels, tastes, smells, and sounds like. God’s love feels different to his enemies.

Jesus chose his enemy, Saul to be his apostle, his messenger. God also chose a  man named Ananias to minister to Saul, his enemy. Though afraid and skeptical about Paul, Ananias chose to trust and obey God and love on and pray for Paul despite his reputation.

How will our love choose to treat and be felt by those who don’t treat us well? How will our love feel for those who have hurt our feelings or faith? Will we trust and obey like Ananias? We just might be the catalyst for their calling.

Choose to believe that your enemies deserve to feel God’s love through your deeds.

Presented by Pastor Chrystal Zidon

God is love (1 Jn. 4:8). Therefore, God gets to define what it looks, feels, tastes, smells, and sounds like.

God’s love sees people differently. God’s love sees us and others differently. Jesus saw Peter differently than he saw himself. Jesus saw Peter as a rock. He saw him as a shepherd despite much evidence that he could not be trusted or relied upon. He was often anything but a rock, but Jesus could see what no one else could. Jesus could see what was to come, who he would become, and spoke that into existence.

Matthew 16:18 MSG - 18 Jesus came back, “God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn’t get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. And now I’m going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.

Choose to see yourself and others through Jesus’ eyes.

Testimonies by Bronda K. and Cameron and Carly W.

Dealing with our hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

The overarching theme of this series is that we all are in need of recovery. Recovery isn’t just for addicts. We all have hurts, hang-ups, or habits that hurt us and/or others. We are all on the road to recovery.

Speaker: Chrystal Zidon