Nothing you can do will ever take you out of presence! God leaves possibilities open to me so I might partner with him in seeing heaven brought to earth.

Prayer isn't about acquisition, it's about hosting God's presence. Nothing you ever do can remove you from God's presence. You're his! Prayer simply becomes a conversation with Father!

"He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love." Eph 4:25-16. Involvement can't be legislated - you can't make it an issue of obedience. It is essential every "part does it's share in building up the body"... that we realize WE have a contribution to making the Body healthy, and in changing our world.

The imago Dei -- the image of God within you, your authentic self, longs to be allowed to find it's fulfillment and expression in loving God and loving others!

"Coming to God may be profoundly personal, but it is also deeply communal. For it happens in the presence of others who love, nurture and guide us along the way."

Re-discover the meaning and purpose of gathering together. In this series (panel discussion), four very different individuals will provide new hope and insight to believe again, to heal and give communion with others and Jesus a chance.

Uh-oh moments in life ARE certain, and rather than run from them we need to consider the new possibilities they present. Properly embraced, they reveal a depth of awareness of Father's presence and change of direction.

Jesus' radical message of love was the brilliant repudiation of the cultural and religious teaching of legal requirement and penal substitution (punishment). Fear has punishment (1 John 4:18) Jesus gave his body to deliver mankind from fear, restore our innocence, and redeemed our fallen mind-set.

So how do you know when you are deceiving yourself? This series will examine a few of the biggest lies we tell ourselves and how we can uncover them, without self-judgment, to live in greater peace and thought freedom. Why would it be comforting in the above circumstances for you to know God foreknew you were going to suffer, AND, that he was actually causing it... all for the vain purpose of glorifying himself? A message about an alternative to God wills everything!

So how do you know when you are deceiving yourself? This series will examine a few of the biggest lies we tell ourselves and how we can uncover them, without self-judgment, to live in greater peace and thought freedom. Anytime you face the internal conflict of inadequacy you are listening to a lie. That inner conflict has its roots in the ego of wanting to control your destiny rather than trusting the outcome to the Father.