North Church STL

The life of Jesus was filled with suffering, and even more so with grace. Similarly, when we allow our lives to be shaped by Jesus, we can experience grace and peace in the fullest measure, even through suffering.

A friend of North Church who is a missionary in another part of the world joined us this week to talk about living out our faith.

The grace of God is unlike anything we know here on earth. It motivates us toward holiness and worship. And once we understand how God views us through his grace, it changes how we view and treat others.

God is a sender. The Bible is full of people that he sent on mission. God has sent people into our lives, and we can't forget that we've also been sent with his mission.

You need god. Whether you realize it or not, we are all dependent on God. So why don't we always live like it? And how do we live like it? We look to the Psalms, where we see David finding joy and peace in knowing the Lord.

This is our final week of the Gospel in Life series, and we look at the culmination of it all - eternity. Revelation 21:5 sums it up, "And he who was seated on the throne said, 'Behold, I am making all things new.'”

Mercy is spontaneous, superabounding love which comes from an experience of the grace of God. The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

Work. Everybody's got to do it. But what would it look like if the Gospel affected the way we work? What if we lived like God's plans are bigger than ours? It just might remind us that the Gospel is not about us, it's about Jesus.

Why does suffering happen? Why are there so many storms, and why are they all over the country? Ultimately, what is God trying to say to us through it all?

We live in a world that longs for something different. Surrounded by the next latest and greatest, we aren't content. And we never truly will be, until we show the world there's a better way to live.`