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Do you see how God's grace is threaded through your past? Your past is marked by mercy, love and grace and that deserves a response to God. This past Sunday Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached on laying down our bodies as sacrifices to God. God doesn't want just a better you, He wants a better us. This is a body, so we belong to each other.

We aren't made whole and healthy by what we have done but rather by who God is. The Good News is not about what God requires but what He provides—it's not about what God demands but what He declares over our lives! This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on being made whole through Christ and the healing power of His Word. The Word is like a surgeon's scalpel, able to access our deepest beliefs and renew our minds!

The church is the home where the Doctor lives, where the Great Physician dwells—and His name is Jesus. This past Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached a message kicking off our new series HOSPITAL sharing on the church being a home to care for the sick. The first step in our lives in receiving healing is recognizing we have a sickness. Jesus defines a sinner as someone who is sick. This shows that the core issue of humanity is not humanity's inability to keep rules but that we are sick and that our hearts need healing.

Why did Jesus come? To make us feel ok and give us a cheap grace? Or was it a costly grace that welcomes us into something that is so personal, so intimate, so divine, so wonderful that we would be one with Him. We have to understand the deeper reason for Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday to see that Jesus is truly worth it. This past Good Friday, Pastor Josh preached a message on 'It's Personal' sharing of why Jesus came and died for us and what we have access to through Him. We should treat everyday as it's both Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday because it is available to us and it's personal, what He did was for you and me. This is how great His love is for us!

In this Q&A session, Pastor Josh Kelsey interviews Louie Giglio, founder and pastor of Passion City Church, exploring the heart of leadership. He dives into what it looks like to lead with vision and durability. Hear wisdom and personal experiences of leadership from this great visionary in the church and our lead Pastor Josh Kelsey. We pray this blesses you as a pastor, leader and team member.

Jesus died and rose again. The empty tomb says to us that Jesus didn't want just our sins covered, but He wanted relationship with us forever. This Easter Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on the forever love of Jesus Christ. At the cross and empty tomb, everything that seems forever becomes temporary and everything that seems temporary becomes forever when confronted by the resurrection power of Christ. There is nothing more forever, nothing more final, nothing more powerful than His Love for us.

God didn't create us with any shame. When He looks at you, there is no sense of shame. This is the heart of our God—to come into every area of our lives and pour out His grace. This Palm Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on being unashamed for Jesus because He is unashamed of us. When we rid ourselves of shame, worry and anxiety, we let the presence of God in and let His love and grace into our life to solve our issue of shame.

If we weren't worth it, why did Jesus come down from heaven to earth? Why did the creator of all things die for each of us? This is how much God loves us and places value on us. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on our value in Jesus. We are worth more than we realize. We need to understand that only Jesus is the only one that can tell us how much our lives and souls are worth. Do you trust God for your value?

Why do we do what we do? Why do we sacrifice and lay down our lives? It's because there is a glory that we are aching for in this life. Until we get His glory in the right place we will never be satisfied. There is no glory big enough outside of the glory of God that will fill our soul. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on losing our life for God's glory. Anything that doesn't have God at the center of it will be destroyed—the only way you destroy your old life is by self-sacrifice and picking up your cross daily. Let's let His wondrous glory fill our vision as we live for something greater!

At our special Allin Team Night, we had the honor of hearing from Pastor Louie Giglio from Passion City Church share a powerful message on Psalm 23 and the table God has prepared for us. We all have power, through the Holy Spirit to sit down at the table with the Shepherd. We have the power to tell the enemy, 'You can prowl around but you cannot sit down at this table.'