As we continue in TRAINING CAMP - we are delighted to have Brigetta Barrett share her story. Brigetta is one of the world's greatest women athletes. She's a silver medalist at the London 2012 Olympics and silver medalist at Moscow's 2013 World Championships. 6 time NCAA Champion. But her greatest claim to fame is her identity as a follower of Jesus. Her faith story will inspire you to keep "training"!

As we examine how to train in our faith we are delighted to have Richard Lopez here to share his story. Richard is the Director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Southern Arizona). "You have ability, but God is more interested in our availability. He can fill in all the rest."

We all have habits that impact, shape and influence us and those around us. The early church lived with a generous habit that began to impact the world. This generous habit Jesus It's a habit of the heart that needs to reside within us and within the world.

We ALL become stuck at some point in our spiritual walk! What are some of the reasons we get there and how do we move forward? God gives us some specific steps we can take to become unstuck and what He wants for our walk with Him.

Adam and Eve broke trust with God in the garden. We have been struggling with trust ever since. Genesis 3:1-6

All of us will face unplanned circumstances in our lives. The only question is how will we respond? Will we be consumed by hopelessness or is their another option? Thankfully, Jesus invites us to face the unplanned moments in a way that moves us beyond despair and brings us into greater intimacy with our Heavenly Father.

We as a church are committed to living out our mission: "Inviting people into a life-giving and life-changing relationship with Jesus." Revisit with us the adventure God has Elements on as we examine the activity of Jesus in Matthew ch. 9 - an example of what we're all about and what we're calling all of us toward.

God pursues us with his love - not to capture us, but for us to surrender to his Amazing Grace. A surrendered life to God, is the life He can use to accomplish much. God pursues us to become something more than we could ever become on our own.

As we continue our look into Hosea and his story - we realize it's part of a bigger story of God and the pursuit of his relationship with His people. Relationships are based on commitment, not contracts. We discover that God's love pursues us with a grace that is greater than... His love knows no bounds, but true love creates boundaries as needed.

We are in love with love stories. They inspire us. Tucked away in the OT book of Hosea we see a tragic, but beautiful love story. One where we discover that God pursues us for a relationship (and that matters friends). A relationship is based around a commitment, not merely a contract. And though we have a tendency to be unfaithful to God; thankfully He is radically consistent at being faithful to us.