There’s nothing like being tossed the keys and that’s what Jesus does for us. He didn’t just toss keys at us He tossed purpose to every situation and aspect of our lives. Jesus comes to earth, He starts a movement… then He tosses the keys to you and I. Actually, He first tosses it to 11 of His disciples. It was this MOMENT that started a MOVEMENT.

Joy follows the leader and the leader is the choices we make. In the Bible the ultimate leader, Jesus, made some choices that we should follow. Let’s take a look at them together.

If joy is a choice, then it is more often about our posture than our position. It’s about focusing on what instead of why.

Welcome to our third Digital Preview! We’ve been discussing how God uses the wilderness or waiting seasons to develop us, and that God never wastes a wilderness. God uses the hard and hidden seasons to grow us. Spiritual maturity is formed in obscurity. We grow spiritually in the mundane of life. We have to grow right where we are and right where God has us planted.

In our first Digital Preview we talked about this idea that coming out of quarantine is like coming out of a wilderness or waiting season. These seasons have a way of teaching us things! What we learn in the waiting is often times more important than what we are waiting for.

Quarantine may be over, but some of you find yourself in a different wilderness. You may have felt unseen in quarantine and now things are reopening and you still feel unseen. But hiddenness is the birthplace of greatness. Your wilderness is God birthing greatness in you!

We tend to live for things in our life rather than from a place of being loved. The one thing though, that we can all live from, is the love of God. What does a life lived from the fullness that comes from God look like?

This Easter and during Quarantine, what is God shifting in your perspective? Sometimes it’s the things of discomfort and pain that bring about the greatest beauty in our lives.

This week, Pastor Jordan had the opportunity to speak at Mission Grove Church in Phoenix, AZ. In Matthew, it says "you are the light of the world..." but how do we actually BE the light? One way is how we love each other; Jesus wants us to create irresistible community."