Often storms and quakes come and shake our lives. For some, these occurrences cause their lives to crumble, while for others, it becomes a purifying process. The parts that shake and fall from our lives are the things of this world, but because we're planted on a solid rock, we still stand. The things God has revealed to us and formed in us can not fall.

God Has planted us here and desires for us to strengthen our root system and grow. What keeps us from growing and maturing in our walk with Jesus is being offended.

Today we look at how holding onto an offense leads to our love growing colder and colder

This week Jared Sanchez came and shared with us his calling to Africa

We know that the virtue of "Faithfulness" or of being "Committed" is very important to our Christian Faith, but would you be surprised if we found Jesus to be very uncommitted? This was exactly what the Pharisees labeled Jesus. Maybe the question shouldn't be, "are you committed?" but the question should be, "What are you committed to?"

As Jesus began his ministry we find him calling Andrew, Simon, James and John to "Come and Follow Me". As we dive deeper into these words we'll find that Jesus is awakening a deeper dream that's deep within their hearts. He's calling them from option "b" to something powerful and inspiring.

As we come to the close of this sermon series, I leave you with two questions that steam from Jesus wonderful dinner at the house of Levi. These two questions stem from Jesus response to the Pharisees when He says, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." I pray that these two questions propel our church into the will of God.

If we really want to be someone who loves God with all of our being than we must learn to love our neighbor. And so we must not confuse or use our devotion to God as justification or as a means to oppress others.

As we turn to 2nd Samuel 6, we see Michal confront David on his undignified actions. Maybe this isn't just a confrontation between a man and his wife, but maybe this is a confrontation between a man who loves God with all his being and a woman who doesn't. Maybe this is the same situation that we have experienced many times in our life.

Is it possible that some of our good "Christian" traditions go against the will of God? Is it possible that we push aside all that God calls us to in order to hold on and observe our traditions? Do we even know the difference between our traditions and God's desires?