As God reveals His heart to us the first thing He warns is not to let anything take His place. Often times, it’s not bad things we allow to do that but it’s good things that we let become dangerous things when they replace Him.

Are you building a successful life, or a useful life? Sometimes we can get caught up building life to look the way we want and we see ourselves as being self-sufficient. Yet, Jesus evaluates the way we live our lives not by how important we think we are, but by how we allow ourselves to be useful for Him.

Real faith that has REAL growth is what really counts. Yet, some of us get stuck in our faith living off the glory days of previous growth rather than leaning in and pressing forward. Or maybe we’re just playing the game, Christian in name only, without actually ever producing life change. Either way, Jesus calls His Church to wake up and move forward!

Mothers are a gift from God. Their hands carry and care for many things. It’s only fitting that the Lord would call us to honor them for the work of their hands.

Not all “Christian” voices are faithful voices. It can be hard to discern false teachers and false teaching, but Jesus calls His Church to never tolerate them. It’s important to reject false teaching when we hear it because WHO & WHAT we listen to will ultimately shape what we believe and how we live.

Faithfulness to Jesus doesn’t just mean refusing to deny Him - it means refusing to drift from Him too. When our affections are set in the wrong places we can get caught in a current that takes us from following Him closely. God’s grace in community is the lifesaver we need to get us safely to shore.

It’s a sad reality, but people can use their words to damage our reputations and cause us pain. It can evoke negative emotions, panic, and chaos in our lives and our hearts. How does Jesus call us to respond when it happens so that we can remain steady and trust Him through it?

In His letter to the Ephesian Church, Jesus reminds us that how we love is more important than merely doing the right things and grinding through the motions of ministry and life.

Jesus came to bring us new life like the bursting forth of green in spring, but with spring inevitably comes storms. Will we choose to focus on Him and grow in faith or be distracted by the storms around us?