My friend Wayne once told me that most of us live our whole Christian life in the wilderness after we're rescued out of Egypt. We don't cross over the Jordan and enter in to the promised land.

This sermon is about crossing over and entering in.

Is faith certainty or is it more like walking a path of surrender in response to the call of the beckoning mystery encoded into life itself?

The kingdom of death has no rightful claim on the kingdom of life. Yet much of the time we live from the wrong story - the facts of our life instead of the Truth.

1. I am chosen
2. I am blessed
3. I am broken
4. I am given

We are to love and to be loved. We need love, desperately.

This is not a flaw. This is God's design.

Receiving healthy love gives healthy identity. Not receiving healthy love damages identity, creating so many issues that drive us in life.

What's the best part of Easter Sunday? We get him back.

When we say "Christ died to save sinners," what do we mean?

What are we saved for?

What are we saved from?

How does his death save us?

Really, this message is about God's love.

When we know whose we are, then we know who we are, and why we are. Then we finally have a stable place to stand.

Who am I? I am God's dearly beloved son, who brings him great pleasure.

Psalm 104 and God's total emotional openness to his entire creation.

1. I can't stand those kinds of people
2. Everyone's got problems
3. There but for the grace of God go I
4. There go I