Love is the fundamental belief of the Christian faith. Jesus himself made this clear when He was asked, "what is the greatest commandment?" Jesus answered, in Matthew 22, with a quote from the OT book, Deuteronomy.

The tomb is empty. Jesus is alive. We are not alone—so expect the unexpected!

We don’t want to go to a cross. We prefer getting to Easter without going through Good Friday. We want triumph and victory, rather than surrender.

4 Prayers from Palm Sunday that we need to pray!

The amazing thing about this story is that Jesus starts with a good guy & a bad guy & by the time we get to the end of the story, the good guy has become the bad guy & the bad has become the good guy!

"I want to show you the best way, THE HIGH-WAY, to take care of virtually every situation & that’s the way of love."

Today—I want to look at the parable of the sower and the seeds in terms of what it teaches us about doing mission & ministry as the people of resTore!

Why are some people able to withstand or resist temptations while others are not?

A good question for resTore: are we going to transform our culture or is our culture going to transform us? Will we keep our eyes on the Messiah & the Mission & the Message?

When the cross is laid across our lives—we begin to see things differently. And when we see differently—it causes us to Wise Up!