God uses people to help us change to be more like Jesus. Community and Connection with others are essential to grow in our faith and to lead us to change. We have a mandate on our lives to be changed to become more like Jesus and to reflect Jesus in our lives. When we experience […]

Jesus is emphatic that we are not just to read, listen or know the Bible, but we are to do what Jesus says. There is nothing more powerful than the transforming work of the Bible in our lives. When we hear the Word and live the Word, then the Word comes alive in us. So […]

Generosity is the life Jesus has called us to live. Generosity isn’t a moment when we give something, it’s a lifestyle. It is a lifestyle for each of us individually, but it is also a lifestyle for our church community. The more generous we are, the greater the difference we make in our world. And […]

Jesus came to teach and invite us to be a part of the kingdom of God. To be a part of the kingdom, we must be willing to follow, obey and represent the king wherever we are. That kingdom first is being like Jesus which results in acting like Jesus. Our prayer and passion is […]

God loved us unconditionally when we didn’t deserve it. That’s grace. But God doesn’t stop there. He gives us grace and fills us with grace so we’ll be grace givers. Grace givers unapologetically accept people where they are at and give grace freely. When grace is given to someone, then anything is possible!

For God, it’s personal! God loves every single person alive. Everyone matters to God. So God wants us to get personal and he has sent us to love people to Jesus. If God is real in us, then he’ll move us to love others. Because everyone matters to God, then they matter to us.

Our regrets can be redeemed for something good. We can fall backward or we can step forward. God not only forgives us for what we did wrong or what we failed to do, but he wants to use that to propel us forward to start fresh. God takes the failures and mistakes to help lead […]

If we want to get “unstuck” from our past we have to own our regrets. But we can’t stop there, we have to release them. And there is only one way or path to release – forgiveness. Release is essentially what forgiveness is all about. We need God’s forgiveness to be released from our sins, […]

Regret is a universal emotion. We are sorry about things we did, or opportunities we missed or about horrible things done to us and how we reacted. We can’t change the past. But we also don’t have to be stuck in the shame of regrets of the past. It is only as we own and […]

So many of us are living in bitterness and cynicism. Pessimism pervades our daily experience. We are often disappointed and dissatisfied. We’ve been disillusioned by people and their promises. Discouragement becomes an all too frequent visitor. We are constantly in danger of losing hope. How do you get a new start and new birth with […]