The greatest thing we can do to access the divine in our lives is pray.

At the start of A Year of Prayer and Discernment, Andy focuses on what an incredible gift prayer is. We have a God who created us who wants to both hear us and speak to us.

“Just beyond what we can see and know is a God who wants to move in us.”

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1 Peter 4:12-17

Jordan looks at 1 Peter 4 and is reminded of "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day." Why? Because, as she point out, "the world is just icky sometimes."

But Peter reminds us why we are called by God to form relationships - so that we can struggle through these things together.

No matter what the pain you go through, don't go it alone.

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1 Peter 3:8-12

In Chapter 3, Peter echoes the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount to remind us of how Jesus Christ talked about living a life of forgiveness rather than retribution.

Andy wants us to find ways to be a peacemaker. “Our days can’t be filled with conflict. We have to move on.”

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This week, Andy dives into chapter 2 of 1st Peter. He points out that our church is a diverse church - in the same way, the book of 1 Peter is the sort of story written to a diverse collection of churches. What Peter is writing about needs to be a model for us.

“Each of us needs to be loved, each of us needs to be forgiven, and the church needs to be a place where we celebrate these things.”

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This week, Amanda Davis covers 1 Peter 1:13-16

Where did you see God at work today?

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Micah 6:7-8

Andy remembers a story of a woman who came into a church he worked at in need of food, and how the church responded - and whether their actions were truly just.

“The church has to be a safe place to have a dangerous conversation.”

When Andy gives, he realizes that the relationships he’s formed matter. Giving and relationship are intertwined. Whenever we make the decision to give and invest, we see God move in every other area of our lives.

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For Amanda's first sermon, she dives into the importance of service, and what a life lived with that purpose looks like.

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As we talk about loving others as we love ourselves, we have a lot of things to overcome - mostly, ourselves.

Paul viewed himself fully as a servant of Jesus Christ - to him, that was his identity. If we did the same, we could avoid falling into all sorts of traps.

COVID has separated us from people and from having a mission. Andy talks about finding a way back.

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