How's your customer service? Did you realize Christians are in the business of customer service? Is the experience that we deliver match the expressions and expectations of our life in Jesus? Our actions should be positive expressions of our best self...reflecting the joy that comes from grace received. Our lives should proclaim that good news (and we should only occasionally use words). #CustomerServing #RedLetterChallenge #messiahyl.

Are you an overpacker? Have you missed the humanity of any moment for the sake of the stuff you're managing? Despite our social facade, internal turmoil below the surface belies our messy life. Forgiveness and grace are the freedom from all chains and shame. Jesus died on a cross to give us a free life...it is finished. Cushions lifted; junk removed (full stop). #RedLetterChallenge #Forgiving #messiahyl

What must a branch do to stay connected to its life giving vine? It just has to remain connected! Remain in me, Jesus asks. The essence of BEING with God can be enhanced by bible reading, prayer, worship, fasting, and resting. The question for us isn't having enough time, but setting higher priorities. Check where your life's power cable connects and plug into BEING with God. #Being #RedLetterChallenge #messiahyl

A hearer and a doer are not necessarily the same. There is a positive difference in results and impact when these aspects are joined. Interactions with Christians should be an experience of joy and uplift. That would be the response if we were more like Christ in our doing...representing Jesus well by acting on His teachings not just hearing them. The next 40 days is a challenge opportunity to live out the red letters of Jesus (in the Bible) to be a better representation of who God is in our world. #RedLetterChallenge #messiahyl

Traffic, phone hold, car repair fiascos...these might be situations for becoming irritable. They are also moments when our responses demonstrate that by our love, everyone will know we are Christians...Christ followers. May this be our aim. #HospitalityRules #messiahyl

Rudeness is a choice we make. Social media has encouraged many to believe "If I think it, I can post it." Improper behavior is not excused by anonymity or ego for the sake of humor, arrogance, pride, selfishness, or even honesty. Telling "a truth" without considering how it will be received is not speaking with love. Gentleness, kindness, and care are always required. #BeGolden #messiahyl

Avoid poison envy; comparison kills joy. When we keep score and covet what what others have, we diminish the blessings that God has given us uniquely. Reflect on your relationship to God and his grace for you. In doing so, your sense of satisfaction will move to deeper love, without envy. #LoveNotEnvy #messiahyl

Mean is easy, nice is soft, but kindness?...that requires courage and action! As God shows first, we are not built to operate from fear but from love. It is possible to shape shift our response to others because of our exposure to, and experience with, God's love. We are called to have faith, hope and, above all else...love. Break from the huddle today and show kindness this week. #SouperBowl #KindnessRipples #messiahyl

Words of restoration and hope are close to each of us. You say, God, that I am loved...I am enough, even in my worst condition. No matter what I've done, how badly I've messed things up, how far I feel from you. God repeats his miracle of restoration and says, don't forget who you are and whose you are, in me, today. #YouSay #messiahyl

Heart—more than just a human blood pump; the heart is the center of our being…the soul, the gut of our lives, and the marker of who we are. Loving God with “all our heart” is a pathway we can journey. It doesn’t require perfection, just a reliance on the renewable transformation that comes with pardoning love from above. #CleanHeart #Messiahyl