Jesus came to be with you in midst of your life's messes. --Maybe you feel like your life is a mess. Just one big, continual, ongoing mess. Like no matter what you try, you mess it up. Maybe you have even felt like you are one of life's messes. The Enemy might have even convinced you at some point that your life is a mistake- that you are a mistake. But I'm here to tell you today that Jesus came to clean up your messes. He came to be with you in the midst of your messes. He came to help you through your messes. And He came to rescue you from your messes. --Jesus came to seek and save the ones who were lost. He came to love His enemies so purely and selflessly that many would turn to Him for comfort and healing - many would surrender to his irresistible love. --I don't know what you have in your past. But Jesus came to save those with a past.--He's not afraid of the messes we make. And we don't have to clean ourselves up -- He does that for us-

Jesus came to be with you in midst of your life's messes. Maybe you feel like your life is a mess. Just one big, continual, ongoing mess. Like no matter what you try, you mess it up. Maybe you have even felt like you are one of life's messes. The Enemy might have even convinced you at some point that your life is a mistake; that you are a mistake. But I'm here to tell you today that Jesus came to clean up your messes. He came to be with you in the midst of your messes. He came to help you through your messes. And He came to rescue you from your messes. Jesus came to seek and save the ones who were lost. He came to love His enemies so purely and selflessly that many would turn to Him for comfort and healing – many would surrender to his irresistible love. I don't know what you have in your past. But Jesus came to save those with a past. He's not afraid of the messes we make. And we don't have to clean ourselves up -- He does that for us!

Love is everything. Simply and truly, everything. Sometimes we feel like there are all kinds of things we must do--duties and obligations and religious responsibilities--and it will be better if we can manage to do them in love. But, in fact, LOVE is everything- --Without pure love, nothing we do has lasting value-

How should we evangelize-- What should we tell people when we talk about Salvation-- Is there a scriptural way to explain what actually happens when a person comes to know Jesus Christ-- --In the passage we are going to read today, a very smart religious man comes to Jesus in Secret, because he knows something is different about Jesus. Jesus clearly explains to Nicodemus the necessity of being -Born Again.- In Doing so, they discuss the kingdom of God and believing. So in this message, we will consider--1. What is the -Kingdom of God----2. What does it mean to believe-- -3. What does it mean to be -Born Again---

How should we evangelize? What should we tell people when we talk about Salvation? Is there a scriptural way to explain what actually happens when a person comes to know Jesus Christ? In the passage we are going to read today, a very smart religious man comes to Jesus in Secret, because he knows something is different about Jesus. Jesus clearly explains to Nicodemus the necessity of being "Born Again." In Doing so, they discuss the kingdom of God and believing. So in this message, we will consider: 1. What is the "Kingdom of God?" 2. What does it mean to believe? 3. What does it mean to be "Born Again"?

Pride distances us from God. God dwells with the humble, but casts away the proud. --Pride is the underlying cause of all human suffering - actually all of the suffering in the world is a result of Pride. But humility is the foundation of human flourishing. --Pride is, foundationally, an inappropriate focus on yourself. Pride is rooted in self-focus and self-concern. But Humility is fundamentally focused on others. -The royal law can only be fulfilled through humility-. --A Warning- We have to be very careful in approaching this topic so that we don't allow the Truth of God to spiral into a tool of Satan.-The aim of this message is not to get you to think less of yourself -although that may be necessary-- the goal is for you to think of yourself less. --Indeed- Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourselves less. Our aim is not to develop a low opinion of ourselves, but an accurate opinion of ourselves in relation to the Triune God. -We are the adopted Children of God the Father, fellow-hears of His son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit LIVES inside of us if we are truly His- And none of that is a result of Anything we have done, but only of grace and mercy. --In this message we will consider the Dangers of Personal Pride, as well as the Dangers of Pride within the Body of Christ