New series: "Life Worth Living - Ecclesiastes series"

Like Solomon, we can lose hope in the mess and seeming futility of life: our perspective seeing only the underside of the tapestry. Yet there are glimpses of the top-side. Glorious beauty in what God is weaving together for His glory and it can't help but inspire awe, worship and trust in His purposes through our lives.

What we see ahead of us shaped from Ephesians 2:8-10 and the vision statement "Trust- who I am IN CHRIST and how CHRIST Lives and Loves THROUGH ME"

Risking shipping out from safe harbor to influence others in 19 North and beyond with the love of Christ, we discover it's what we were designed for.

Hebrews 12 begins with a triple compound inferential participle (Therefore) that only occurs here and in 1 Thessalonians 4:8. The writer is drawing the entire epistle to its conclusion dramatically as he shifts to exhortations to the reader based upon all that has come before. Endurance is the issue, and now we learn what we should be thinking of during the trials of life as we follow Jesus. If we want our lives to look like the heroes of chapter 11 who endured in their faith, we have to keep our eyes focused on Jesus (1-3), put the trials of life in the context of God’s loving mentoring (4-11), and thereby gain the strength we will need as God heals all that is broken within us.