When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
—Isaiah 43:2-3, ESV

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” - John 4:13-14

John 3 declares to us that God’s love is not passively generic – it is aggressively personal!

The church is perfectly designed to achieve its distinctive mission, but to do so requires it follow the Ephesian 4 model.

The church is perfectly designed to achieve its distinctive mission, but to do so requires it follow the Ephesian 4 model.

We have been invited into a relationship with God. Through that relationship, we encounter a living God.

How we treat our enemies matters greatly to God.