We Think scarcity, God works abundance. Story about my economics professor: "I bet for a certain amount of money, I could get you to kill your mom...."

We are called to abundant generosity.

Miracle doesn't happen without our gift. even what little we can give.

Miracles happen out of acts and lives of sacrifice.

Lisa Y. "God's exchange rate is different than our own."

Key question of life with God is: "Can God lay out a table in the wilderness?"

Ephesians 3:14-21

-Our imaginations are pained, fractured, ruptured by the pains of life and the world.

-Prayer and the healing power of the Holy Spirit in us heals our imagination.

-Ultimately, prayer allows us to see people, ourselves, and the world as God sees them, We tap into the eyes of God.

"How do I discern and live into God's will?"

Why did God make us? What are we here for?...

We are here to bring glory to God.

Genesis 32:22-32

Israel means "struggle?" Jacob came face to face with a God who is real, living and active. A God who could be questioned, and even wrestled. In the end, you can't ever come out of the struggle the same.

2 Corinthians 5:17

What do you do when your faceplants keep finding a way to haunt you? People keep bringing them up? You can't seem to shake them?

We are made NEW in Christ. No going back to the old. Turn off the record that tells you you are a failure. Saul becomes Paul. Abram becomes Sarah, etc.

Message from Will Hasley on September 3, 2017

Story of David

"What NOT to do"

Don't try to cover up

Only way to freedom was confession

"I can figure this out in my own" (don't do this)

Peter/Series set up/How to Avoid a Faceplant: Never say Never

Message from Will Hasley on August 13, 2017