What gives you joy? What has given you fullness of joy? First Child? Purchasing Your first home? Accomplishing a goal? Graduation from a school?

Today, we move from living in the promises our parents made for us, to making the promises for ourselves. We must stay connected to bear fruit.  We must stay connected to live.

“Choose which way you will go, but as for me and my house, we will serve...

A good shepherd fights off wild animals, cares for those who are hurting, and leads them beside still waters.

Sheep belong in a flock.

We, like sheep, have gone astray.

What do you do when you have new information that changes your understanding of everything? How would you feel? What do you do with the mind-blowing new information?

“Peace be with you.” -Luke 24:36b

Jesus’ followers were gathered together in a locked-room just hours after some of them discovered Jesus’ body was missing.

He is alive!

The one we hoped for. The one we followed, the one who healed the sick, cured the lame and gave sight to the blind. The one who fed thousands with a couple fish and a few loaves of bread… the one who taught, and loved, and cared.

He is...

“I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.(vs. 33)

God has found a way for us to live.

Abraham - faith is reckoned by righteousness. We are saved by grace, not through our own works, through faith.

God came to Abraham in his old age through three angels, told him he would have a son, be father of nations, and that his descendants would be a great people and blessing to the nations...