Kingdom Pedagogy

• Worship can and should be done both privately and corporately, when you are alone and when you are gathered with other believers. 
• Worship does not need to happen in a particular place. You can worship at church, at home, in your car driving to work, on a walk in your neighborhood, anywhere.
• Worship comes from a heart of gratitude for all God has done, awe of who God is, and humility knowing he has called us to be his children despite our sin. 
• Worship is based on the truth of God and his word.
• Worship can include singing praises to God, reading a Psalm of praise to him from the Bible, or just simply speaking words of praise, thanksgiving, and adoration to our God.
• Worship can include a physical posture such as kneeling or raising hands, but not as an outward display of spirituality. Any such display should come from a sincere heart of worship.

Worship can look different to different people in their own contexts, but the scriptures are clear that God wants his children to worship him.

"But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."— Romans 5:8, NASB.

Love demonstrated is love that acts, not because of who we are, but because of who God is.

Romans 5:8 (NASB) shows us the heart of the Gospel:

"But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

This isn’t conditional love.
It’s not the kind that waits for us to clean up, show up, or measure up.
It’s love that moved first.
Love that saw our sin and still chose sacrifice.
Love that didn’t hesitate, even when we weren’t ready to receive it.

Words do not prove God’s love — it’s proven by the cross.
He demonstrated it. Openly. Publicly. Eternally.
And He did it while we were still sinners — not after we believed, repented, or got it right.

This kind of love rewrites the story.
It tells us we are wanted, valued, and pursued — even in our brokenness.
It becomes the standard, the model, and the challenge:
To love not just when it’s easy or earned, but when it reflects the heart of God.

This is love, demonstrated.

❤️ Love Demonstrated – Based on Romans 5:8 (NASB)

Solitude

(NASB)Matthew 6:6 But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

In Matthew 6:9-13 during his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus explicitly tells us how to pray, even giving us a sample prayer we can model.

He says,“(NASB)

9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread. 12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]

Characteristics of the Spiritual Disciplines Part 1

John 14:6, “...(NASB) “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Spiritual Discipline pt 1
Paul puts it this way in I Corinthians 9:24-27:
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”

Trusting God to Change You

Ephesians 3:20 says, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us…:”

Anxiety Is A Liar

Matthew 6:27 (NASB)27 And who of you, by being worried, can add a single hour to his life?

Never Alone

Deuteronomy 31:6 “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, it is He that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”

Could Anxiety Be a Blessing?

Psalm 94:19“In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.”