We rounded the first lap of Pace Your Race yesterday, and today we begin lap 2 -- One Step at a Time!

When we seek to achieve great things, or even just new and uncertain goals, it can seem impossible. This makes taking the first step all the more difficult. We fill our own minds with fear and doubt before we're even sure of what will happen. All great achievements and purposes begin with one single step in the right direction, and the rest is just putting one foot in front of the other.

Start your engines everyone, it's day 1 of our Pace Your Race series!

For lap one of this series we discuss God being our partner, and when He is, we can reach beyond our natural limitations. Throughout the Bible we see examples of this, which we will god over today, and what they teach us is that if we have God in the driver's seat, plan big.

It's time to wrap up our Extra Credit series today and we're doing so by returning to Identity & Labels.

In the world, names have no power, but in the Bible, they mean quite a lot. We may or may not always have to be confined to our name for eternity, but what we must realize is that God has a purpose for our life, and whatever label HE has for us, we should trust that it is destined for us.

Be sure to check out our Identity & Labels series on YouTube!

Continuing our Extra Credit series -- where we dig deeper into some previous lessons from the past few months -- we're returning to the Get Fit series, specifically our lesson on Mentally & Emotionally Fit.

Check out the Get Fit series on our YouTube page!

It feels bizarre saying it's day 2 of a series on a Wednesday, but here we are! It's day 2 of our Extra Credit series, and we're diving back into The Little Things today.

If you haven't already, you can watch the 5-day series -- The Little Things -- on our YouTube page!

This week we went a bit of a different direction since we have a shortened week due to Labor Day. So, this week we bring you a series of devotions that expound on previous series we've done in the recent past.

To kick things off, we'll be going back into our Faith Factor series. If you haven't checked those episodes out already, we encourage you to give them a watch on our YouTube page!

We're ending the Before & After series today with a simple message: God is powerful so that we don't have to be.

Too often we try to do everything on our own and try to solve all of our problems because of fear that God is condemning us. This is not reality, this is our own guilt keeping us from understanding that our God always loves us -- he can handle anything we throw at Him and He has already forgiven us for all of our sins.

So before we're so quick to think that we can handle everything ourselves, let's remember that God is the most powerful and will eradicate any and all sins we commit.

We've been discussing Before & After -- the ultimate makeover in Christ. It can seem a little far-fetched, but what He says is true. Now, it's not some sort of magic trick that he just waves a wand and voila we're a new person. It takes work, it takes time, but most importantly it takes an active pursuance of the Lord and allowing Him to work IN us to make us new.

The ultimate question we all face in our journey with the Lord: does God have a plan for my live and, if so, what does it look like? It's important for us to know the answer to this, and that's what we will be talking about in this series.

Day 2 of Before & After -- we're talking about NOW. Where do you need Jesus at this moment? Whether you're in the process of finding God or you've already found Him and need to continue to grow, identify your needs.