Live life in your skin.1 Corinthains 7:7Living life in your passion and giftedness brings fulfillment and purpose to your life.Giftedness is always affirmed by passion and production."Success is not what you've done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you are supposed to do." - Tony Evans

Give them roots and wings!Psalm 127:3-4The arrow can go where the archer can't.Give them a life rooted in faith. (Eph. 6:4b)Our unconditional love provides security and intimacy.Constructive discipline builds respect and brings peace.Be a model of grace and hope.Give them wings for freadom and to soar. (Eph. 6:4a)Give space for mutual respect to unique personality and idividual passionsGive permission to go beyond tradition, but always follow truth.

1 & 2 Corinthians; LukeDeath is a date you can't break.Death is a process for personal transformation. (1 Cor. 15:53; Luke 16:19-22)It is the separation of body & soul. (2 Cor. 5:8)It is immediate. (1 Cor. 15:52)Death is the doorway into everyone's eternal destiny. (Luke 16:23-31)It can be a joyful destiny forever with the Lord in heaven.It can be a painful destiny forever seperated from the Lord in Hell.You may not know when death comes, but you can know where you are going when death comes.

(Please forgive us for some periods of static in this week's recording)Mark 16:1-7The sun came out, the son came out, hope is alive, and we can be all in!Hope - death is defeated and our debt is satisfied. (Mark 16:1-6)Hope - God gives second chances! (Mark 16:7)Is your hope alive?

When we come to realize we have nothing to offer God, that is when we can receive everything God offers us.The cross is God's exclamation of human value. (Luke 23:39-41) Even a thief can go to heaven!The cross is God's expression of unconditional love. (Luke 23:42-43) Jesus wants to spend forever with us.No one would have given the thief a prayer, but in the cross, that is all he had and in the end that is all it took.

The untouchable is not reachableJesus touched the untouchables of the world and they were never the same. (Matthew 8:14)Jesus still touches through those He has touched. (Colossians 3:12)Jesus touched the untouchables of the world. Will you do the same?

John 3:1-11, 14-16; 19:38All spiritual journeys start in the dark, but some will finish in the light.The collision between religion about God and a relationship with God is the first step to a new beginning from God. (John 3:1-11)Religion says you do the work. Jesus says God does the work.Religion says it is a person's job to earn it. Jesus says it's a person's responsibility to recieve it.It doesn't matter what all you do if you miss what only God can do!The only way you can go to heaven is to believe God has done everything you need to go to heaven. (John 3:14-16)The one without sin must die for everyone who has sinned.The one who is eternal is the only one who can give eternal life.Joseph came and took the body of Jesus away. (John 19:38) With him came Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night (v. 39)nicodemus finally got it! Have you?

A moment can matter for an eternity.Desperate moments move us toward Jesus (Mark 5:24-26) How many people live in quiet desperation?Divine moments bring Jesus toward us. (Mark 5:27)A defining moment is a demonstartion of faith that will change your life. (Mark 5:28-32) God will not reject a genuine gesture of faith!This is your moment!

John 8:1-12Failure and Grace...Shame and Forgiveness...Contrasts that boggle the mind, but bless the heart.Throwing stones is easy when you don't look in a mirror.Jesus did not come to throw stones at sinners. He came to die for the shattered, the shameful, and the sinful.You don't have to be a casuality of the darkness!

Mark 2:5-11Love bursts happen. They are spontaneous moments of affection, graciousness, devotion, kindness, and love.They are moments that create memories that last a lifetime!Jesus has them all the time!Jesus is so touched by what He sees, that He gives us what we need and not just what we ask for.The hardest thing Jesus ever did was not healing His body, it was forgiving His sin.One required a simple command. Forgiveness required a cross.One needed merely a word from Jesus. Forgiveness needed the blood of Jesus.The only words that matter thoughout eternity are "your sins are forgiven."