Here to There Week 3-Numbing Out to Leaning In by St. John's Church Podcast

You are not alone because Jesus has chosen to lean into your life with his.

Hurt is attracted to hope because we need hope when we're hurting.

So if you are suffering, acknowledge the pain. Hurt is attracted to hope, sing a song of hope. Because what you'll find is that those moments become your place of prayer.

What if God is using everything, even the things we avoid, the decisions we wish we never had made, to shape us into the people God wants us to be?

The truth is, God's grace is always moving us--moving us from here to there, and faith isn't a destination, it's the journey.

In glory, a future glory, where there will be no more disappointment, no more pain, illness, sadness, death...where every chocolate Easter bunny is pure chocolate, where cemeteries and burial spices are obsolete, and where like Mary, Jesus will call you by name, and wipe away your tears from our eyes.

He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!!

It is finished....

King Jesus came to crush our enemies by crushing the root of what makes us enemies in the first place

The best thing we can do when we hit a snag in life is to get up and live another day, to live through the Gospel and to allow God to continue to weave new thread into the tapestry of your life, because the hope of God is that those snags will be redeemed by being woven into the fuller picture.

Pastor Jake joins us this morning to continue our series on the Book of Ruth

He has the ability to redeem you, and all of you have the ability to do is to be redeemed. This is what God has done for us. And living a new, redeemed life in him can begin today.