Rooted Daily with Brandon Lavy

Risks are, by definition, all about stepping into the unknown. When Peter walked on choppy waters towards Jesus that was a literal stepping out, but there’s something different about the risk Peter took and the ones we sometimes have to consider: Peter knew God was asking him to take that risk. How do we know if God wants us to take risks today or not?

Today we’re talking about the danger of what we aim for in this podcast which is to read the Bible more each day so that we can know God’s will, grow a strong, bold spirit, and overcome life’s storms with the hope the gospel gives us.

Our worship is not just pleasing to God or wanted by God, it is demanded by Him from us, and He is explicit about what this worship looks like because it seems that it is a little unnatural for us.

It’s not feasible for most of us to unplug completely for any extended length of time, but our smart phones could destroy us if we allow them to dictate our lives. So how long should their leash be?

Jeremiah 20:9 says, “But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.” God lights a fire in our lives that’s not just about passion or excitement; it is the inability to do anything but proclaim the good news!

The Bible contains the objective truth about every aspect of our lives and that includes a great amount of detail about how we work and live our lives, but the Bible’s description of what productive work looks like is vastly different from what our society says productivity looks like.

In the beginning, God declared His creation work good and His creation of mankind very good, but His final day of rest was the first that He called holy. Today we ask why rest is set apart by God and how why can enjoy that rest fully.

Many of you know that my wedding is tomorrow, so today I wanted to talk about the incredible value God places on marriage and ask why it is so important to Him.

Today we’re talking about how to get away with crashing a wedding… kind of. We’re going to look at a story where a man manages to get himself an invite to the king’s son’s wedding and by the end of the night the king had ordered him bound and thrown outside into the darkness, where there would be weeping and gnashing of teeth. So what did this wedding crasher do so wrong?

Love requires our effort, but it is far more than our choice. Our will is simply not enough to make love work.