As we prepare for Palm Sunday, let’s meditate on Jesus’ words to the Pharisees: If his disciples don’t cry out in praise the rocks will! We are created to worship God! Don’t let the rocks take your place!

It’s easy to get discouraged when trying to accomplish the vision God has for us. After all, if God gave us vision in the first place why would He allow it to be so hard? This week we look at Nehemiah and his example of how he handled resistance to the vision God has for him. We learn that not only will we experience conflict, we should expect it.

Being outraged, angered or bothered is not vision. Vision is the tension of a current situation and what it is supposed to be. That tension doesn’t go away until there is action. We can’t wait for someone else to act. We must do it. But how? This week we talk about the reality that our job is “what” and God’s job is “how”.

What breaks your heart? In our current culture we have never had more access to events that cause us alarm or even worse, trauma. But what if God wasn’t as concerned with your emotions but, rather, what you do next. This week we look at a man named Nehemiah and how God initiated a response and followed it with the beginning of orchestrating an action.

Our culture here in America says you need to be number one in all you do. The wisest man who ever lived recognized that this was like chasing after the wind. This week Pastor John talks about how our Heavenly Father wishes us to be at peace with who we are and what we are already blessed with.

Have you ever thought that the sacrifice Jesus made for us all doesn’t count for you? The distraction of regret can lead us to beleive that to be true, but it isn’t. We are not qualified to judge ourselves, only our Heavenly Father is. This week Pastor John covers scripture where the Apostle Paul tells us to press on and let God be God.

All too often we find ourselves imagining how it all “should” be. God wants us to leave fantasy and meet Him in reality. This week, Pastor John talks about how David failed by living in fantasy and how we can lean on Him to accept and deal with reality.

This week, we celebrate several baptisms in our church with a short message of what it means to be baptized. That is to die to oneself and rise to newness of life with Christ.

Our culture in America has us think that being a reactionist is the way we ought to be. This week Pastor John talks about the 3rd value in our mission statement at Living Spring Church, and that is to RESPOND to the move of The Spirit.

The great news is that our Heavenly Father is in the restoration business. The not so fun news, is that it involves a process. Often much longer than we would like to admit to ourselves. Fortunately, Jesus is not one who will ever give up on transforming our lives into more than we could ever dream of. This week, Pastor John talks about how that process is through wholehearted surrender to our Savior.