Front Porch Confessional

We are so afraid of our humanity, and God is not!  David, the man after God's own heart teaches us to protest God...to let him hear you woes.

Psalms 13:1 How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

We are so indivigulized and Pastor Paul is pointing us to the reality of what it means to be a part of the family of God.  You are not alone.  What you do matters.  This is SO MUCH bigger than just you:-) 

2 Corinthians 12: 26  If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

We have a lot of plan and goals, but are they they Lords?  In this episode Pastor Paul is helping this young church and I move into a greater understand of God's sovereign plan.

Philippians 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Man do we have our desires all mixed up...David is realigning us to a reality centered on the Lord.

Psalms 37:4-5 Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

This is a key passage to unlocking where your heart and desires are.  Jesus loves you and wants to lead you into "life and life to the full," but we have to get honest with where we are at.

Matthew 6:21  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

It's  so counter intuitive to be a fool, but that is what Pastor Paul is inviting us into.  We think we are wise and so we miss Jesus. So be a fool in the world's eyes and you will start to see clearer.

1 Corinthians 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 

This is the question for the years...what do you trust?  David in this beautiful prayer points us not only to his observation of others, but of himself.  

Psalms 20:7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

What a wonderful thing to know that we are clean before God because of Jesus' death and resurrection, but how should that impact the way I see myself?  How should that impact the way I live out my days on earth?  

1 John 2:2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

John  concludes this section by telling believers in Jesus to be like Jesus...and what did Jesus do?  He not only proclaimed things about himself, but he actually did them.  We are called to do the same.

1 John 3:18  Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

We have been given so much, and so much has been done for us...so what do we do now?  Pastor John confronts us...do we love our stuff more than others, if so...do we really know God?  It's a powerful question that we work through in this episode.

1 John 3:17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?