NBLC used to have five rakes available for serving our community. Now we have two-to-four hundred. Some churches have a ministry van or bus, but NBLC has hundreds of cars ready for service. Do you know what I mean?

This is kind of obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: Jesus will accomplish more with two people talking to each other than two people successfully ignoring each other. But here is the real shocker, we need to lower your expectations for these conversations for them to take place!

Want to learn how to hear from Jesus? The practice of hearing from and recognizing Jesus in everyday life is what this message is all about.

Is seeing believing, or is believing seeing? Ha! For those with eyes to see, clearly Jesus is up to something. He is inviting you to notice, to believe, and to wrestle with what is unfolding all around you!

Perhaps you were at the last service Pastor Greg Finke shared the Word? With humor and great teaching, we were treated to a feast of insights. Once again, we get the privilege of learning from this gifted communicator.

“Remember that you have to die.” Some people die without ever having lived! But when you remember your mortality, it impacts how you will live. Lent begins, as always, with Ash Wednesday and we will don ashes in the shape of the cross to remember that Jesus died to give us life–and to show us how to live!

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Isn’t it nice to know that God’s best intentions are not thwarted by your worst inclinations? God has set certain outcomes in place from eternity and we have to marvel at how these come together in spite of us!

Accompanying reading:
Ruth 1-4
The Story, Chapter 9

What if your various body parts just did their own thing? One eye looks to the right, the other to the left; your fingers refuse to touch your thumbs; the left foot tries to trip the right! You’d be a mess! Good thing your head coordinates your body!

Accompanying reading:
Judges 2-4; 6-8; 13-16
The Story, Chapter 8

How do you know you’ve succeeded? Like Moses, God has given you something to do. Either you know what that is already or you don’t yet know what that is. This week you’ll find out what’s next for you and how to succeed!

Accompanying reading:
Joshua 1-2; 6; 8; 10-11; 23-24
The Story, Chapter 7

Why God does What He does is always the same, regardless of What God does, when it concerns us. How we see What God does depends on our perspective.

Accompanying reading:
Numbers 10-14; 20-21; 25; 27; Deuteronomy 1-2; 4; 6; 8-9; 29-32; 34
The Story, Chapter 6