It doesn't take much living before we realize part of our lives are a mess. These areas are different than what we intended them to be and often they are different than what God wants. We can choose to blame our circumstances or other people, deny...

Do I belong? Am I worthy? These kinds of questions can create doubt and separation if we listen to voices that answer with a "No". However, God has made a way through Jesus Christ, giving us value and acceptance through forgiveness. Which voice...

As we begin to follow Jesus it doesn't take long before we see that He, in turn, sends followers to others. To represent the presence and life change of Jesus, by His grace. We are active participants in Gods plan to rescue and redeem the world!

For many of us, we have thought being a Christian meant simply believing in God and agreeing to a set of questions. At times we may have been better at telling someone what following Jesus should look like than demonstrating it. Although belief is...

In the book of Acts, Luke describes the life of the group of those who were committed to following the teachings and life of Jesus. Looking more like a diverse family more than anything else, this group and their faith became cemented together...

New construction always needs to be built plumb; absolute alignment for stress to be properly distributed. Our faith journey with Jesus continually is to be in alignment or plumb to Him. Just as a plumb bob will align building projects, prayer aligns...

Often we find our identity in what we do. God is most concerned with who we are, though. Who we are, or our identity, can either be our own making or can be trusted to our Creator and the purpose for which He created us. If we want to know God and in...

The Way of Jesus Christ is a different way of living, first proclaimed then lived by Jesus. This way of life is a way of love. The call to follow Jesus is a call to be grown in grace to be a conduit for the love of God to everyone, even our enemies....

It is easy to tell when we're winning a football, baseball or basketball game by checking the scoreboard. But what scoreboard do we have for our lives, our relationships or even our spiritual lives? Jesus told his disciples that winning in the...

The idea of a "New You" looks great on a gym ad or the latest diet commercial, but can we actually be made new? Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5 that those in Christ have been made a new creation, given a new life and this new life is for the task of...