Are you connecting to God? Are you connecting to yourself and understanding how you feel? Are you connecting to others?

How are you handling grief and loss in your own life? Are you stuffing your emotions? Are you ignoring this stuff or are you turning towards the pain, and growing and maturing through it?

God didn’t come to make your life an American success story. He came to forgive you, heal you and walk with you as you walk through the mess of life.

Do you see history repeating itself? Do you see any behavioral patterns from the past impacting the present for me there? Our family history lives inside us all... even those of us who just don’t want to go backwards so we can move forward.

Do you own a car? Have you ever had the engine light go on? Your engine light is telling you that you need to pay attention to your engine. If you ignore it, you are ignoring reality and bigger problems are coming. Your emotions are the exact same. They are God’s way of telling you that you need to check your heart.

You can live opposite of the ways of this world. You can live a life that is centered on Jesus. A life that is deliberate, intentional, and full of the kind of love that only comes from a relationship with Him! This happens as we begin to work on both our Spiritual health and our emotional health.

A part time job helps you make ends meet but you really don’t want to be there – right? Today we talk about what happens when we treat following Christ like a part time job.

In the absence of love, selfishness rules. Tit-for-tat living, measuring each other, secret agendas, and rankings always leads to broken relationships.

Do you feel stuck?

Think about what life would look like if your first view wasn’t about you, but was seen through the eyes of the Gospel. Would your life look any different?