Gardens must be watered regularly. Nurture your faith. Set spiritual goals. Seek God deliberately, directly. And do it daily.

Plants need good soil to grow. Do you surround yourself with good things spiritually, socially, and within yourself?

Jesus is the light of the world. Like plants, we need exposure to the Light to live. And we need it directly from Him, constantly.

God is a gardener. He wants to see us grow and flourish. We were each planted with a purpose: to blossom into a unique image of God.

Jesus offers us eternal life, and life to the fullest now. Today, we heard from several people whose lives have been changed by His love.

Herod treated Jesus like a genie. Pilate bent to peer pressure from the crowd, which was led astray by the emotion of the moment.

Even the best of us can turn against God by asserting ourselves over Him. Is God an obstacle to your agenda?

Jesus could forgive His murderers from the cross because the path to peace is surrender to God. Are you holding something from Him?

We find peace in God's calling. As we surrender our identity, God reveals our purpose. As we obey, we find peace and blessing.

For true peace, we must give our identity to God. We must give up the image we made up for the one God intended.