Racism is offensive and especially to God. It will be with us until Jesus returns, so how do we respond to the reality of it in our world. Ignoring it or being colorblind is not the answer. God has something to say about it and how we as the church are to live together in racial harmony.

Today is Sancitity of Life Sunday, a day where we blow the trumpet for the unborn.

For those who come into the marvelous light their identity is changed and the Father’s heart for them with this new found identity is to proclaim God’s identity to the world. The Father makes us who we are through Jesus so we could make known who He is. Today let us know the Father’s heart.

As we jump into the New Year I want us over the next two weeks to remember together who God says we are and what our purpose is to be in the world. As we do I want us to see how this influences every area of our life and helps direct our days to increasingly glorify God along the way.

With Jesus’ coming we see that God’s desire is not only to dwell with us, but in us. He does that through His Holy Spirit. Today, we look at the Holy Spirit.

God's ultimate goal is to be with mankind in the flesh and dwell among mankind, as to go back to what He intended from the beginning. Today, we look at how God has done that in His Son Jesus who has come and is coming again.

Today we direct our attention again to the nation of Israel. The Israelites are taken captive to Babylon under the reign of an evil king. In the foreign land they learn an awesome lesson that God is with them not only in Babylon, but in a burning hot furnace as well. It is obvious that we do not live in the Promised Land, but what instead increasingly appears to be more and more like Babylon. We are “aliens and strangers” just as the Israelites were and we are to live remembering that God is with us as we worship Him and stand for the truth of God.

Today, we are going to look at the story of David taking down Goliath. God was with David and by faith he took Goliath down. God is with the weak, humble, little and small things to magnify His glory. God is with us, who trust Him in the daily battle to do the same in bringing glory to His name.

Today, we see God being with Israel in the exodus from Egypt and how He fought for His people. This great exodus points to the exodus of Jesus which greatly affects us today.

Today we begin with the picture of “God with us” in the beginning and God’s desire in the garden to know mankind intimately and His desire to know us in that same way today (Genesis 1-3).