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Listen and pray through Romans 8:12-17

You've heard it said...but I say...

Oftentimes, we throw around words like "love" and "hate" without really thinking through the implications and what we are actually meaning. Join us as we discuss biblical love, who our enemies are, and how we should treat them. 

Pray through and ruminate on these few verses of Romans 8. 

We love to focus on our outward appearance and our observable behavior; however, Jesus tells us that our intent and inner heart matters. If we took his words seriously, how would it transform our attitudes, our emotions, and our very thought life!?

Pray and ruminate through the first 4 verses of Romans chapter 8.

Jesus had some pretty specific and poetic instructions for how his followers should engage in the culture they found themselves in. However, we don't often take these instructions seriously and rather choose fight or flight instead of the hard work of being salt and light. 

Over the summer we'll be publishing some mini bonus episodes to help you ruminate and pray through scripture...specifically Romans chapter 8. This week we'll be reading it in its entirety, where in the following weeks, we'll zoom in and marinate in shorter passages, followed by time of reflection and prayer. 

Today we start our summer book club reading through "What if Jesus was Serious?" by Skye Jethani. Starting at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus already begins to turn our understanding upside down by changing the way we think about blessing and WHO is actually blessed in the Kingdom of God. How would our lives look different if we took him seriously and began to look at blessing AND other people differently through Jesus' eyes? 

Laugh with us (or at us) as we make a summer bucket list...in song form! As you enter into summer what are the areas God is asking you to lean into in order to see change and fruitfulness in your life and faith? We asked ourselves that question and then made a playlist of fun songs to go along with those bucket list themes. Warning: there's a lot of singing and even more laughter in this episode! Happy Summer!

All of us need each of us! Pastor David shares about his time away and the many ways God shaped him, encouraged him, and downloaded fresh insight into life and ministry. Among these learnings was the reminder of how isolated so many have become and how the Church can and should be the answer to the great belonging problem.