Choose Your Compass. Life is too important to live without a sense of direction. Our mindsets help us to navigate life well. But just like we need a compass in the wilderness, we need a centering point that draws us toward our destiny. We need a compass to navigate the twists and turns through life. Jesus is our center and His Word is our compass.

Make Room. Life can easily get crowded. Our house starts to feel small as we accumulate more belongings. The schedule seems over-full as our kids get more involved. And if we are honest, our crowded lives start to feel pointless. Jesus has a way of bringing fresh purpose to our life if we are willing to align our mindset with His.

Have a need? Plant a seed!

We’ve been talking about flourishing in our lives in the "Seeds" collection of messages. Everything starts as a seed, but we want it to grow into a strong, tall healthy, producing tree. Today we are looking at what ensures seeds to GROW

“Goals are only as good as your systems”

We are people of faith but we can’t speak our way out of bad habits/systems/routines. We need to stay focused on the right patterns while we are patiently waiting for the harvest.

Water has the power to shape the hardest rock formations over time. Watering our hearts with God's Word will shape our hearts and desires to be modeled after God's plan for our lives.

Our hearts are the soil in which we plant God's word. This is why it's critical we prepare our hearts to receive God's word!

What we need to understand, is that the environment often determines success. The climate and the soil we sow a seed into often determines the success of the crop. Seeds are like decisions. We make a decision to be more engaged parents, but we never change the environment...keeping tv in each room, phones never on silent, nor calendaring intentional family time that we protect ⏤ nothing really will change. Why? Because we will harvest what we plant and the environment and the people around us, play a big role in it.

God is working the Night Shift, just like the shepherds were watching the sheep the night Jesus was born. God is a GOOD Shephard .. watching out for us, never sleeping and always working on our behalf!

Dreams are a powerful thing. For many people, the dream we start within life takes a messy and unpredicted turn. What happens when our dream life becomes a dreaded mess? As we look at the Christmas story, we will see that the same God who gave us the dream can rewrite our dream in a new direction!