Every person should increase their gratitude from sometimes to always. Gratitude increases my affection for people...those I’m thankful for. Gratitude increases my desire to serve them.

Every person should follow Jesus’ example and lean into Scripture during times of suffering for these reasons. 

Scripture gives you a voice when you're suffering.

Scripture feeds your faith when you're suffering.

Jesus asks: As my followers, are you willing to embrace suffering to serve people?

Sermon from Kevin Punch, high school minister

Believers who deny themselves, take up their cross and follow Jesus are the most fulfilled. They find life.

We take up our own crosses because it puts us on the same path as Jesus.  I just want Jesus so bad that I will follow Him all the way…even to the cross.  Disciples deny themselves.

Here’s the other side of what it means to be a disciple: We will engage the world.

God’s Kingdom grows in the hearts and minds of believers as we submit to His reign and His rule in our lives. The kingdom grows on the inside, not just on the outside!

Every person can experience healing from Jesus understanding the hindrances and the keys to getting well. 

Some people prefer holding onto what they are used to rather than opening themselves up to disappointment again. 

Some people prefer familiarity over change.

Some people want their sin more than wellness.

Some people believe they are well when they are sick.

Some people have been healed but choose to sit in their misery.

Ah, some of you can believe for other people, but we must bring the question more fully home to you and say, “… Is Christ able to save you – even you? Is he able to do this?” Charles H. Spurgeon

Jesus is the ONLY One who gives you hope. Jesus is approachable and interruptible. Jesus calls you out to give you a way out.

The very waves you are afraid of are the very waves God wants to use in your life.

What are the waves in your life?