Today, Pastor Rob talks about practical love... he shares the impact that God’s love, agape love, makes on our lives.

Today we start a new series called, Love, Practically. Join us as Pastor Jevon takes helps us in understanding love through purses and labels. He explains how there is no area of your life where love does not apply. 

As we go through these next few weeks, don’t just limit this to romantic love.  The Greeks had different iterations of the word that described different kinds of relationships.  It described love of friendships, family, our love for and from God, and romantic love.

For the past six weeks we have been talking about what it means to live by faith. So this morning I want to focus on the second part of the Easter story in John’s Gospel because it focuses on Mary Magdalene who represents a particular kind of Easter faith. Like Peter and John who witnessed the empty tomb, they were all believers in Jesus. They didn’t exactly come to faith on Easter, they came to a new faith.

Today Pastor Rob Fuquay portrays a Centurion in the Roman Legion serving in Judea under Pontious Pilate, prefect of Caesarea, and loyal subject to his divine sonship, Emperor Augustus. Loyal, that is, until he avowed faith in Another. Listen as Pastor Rob dramatically portrays this story.

Today we are talking about the most important element of this series on faith, putting faith into practice, understanding how faith changes everything when we put our trust in God fully.

For people of faith it seems the burden of proof has always been against us when it comes to presenting a reasonable argument for why we believe. After all we are talking about a God we cannot see or touch; and claims like resurrection, walking on water or parting a sea defy what our own sciences say is possible. Listen how Pastor Rob talks about finding the evidence in your life.

This week, Pastor Nicole explains how sharing the love of Jesus can change how not only God sees us, but how we see the miracles He makes in our lives. How, Faith is a filter that changes the way we see the world and even the way that we see Jesus. Depending on our angle, our soul settings the saturation of faith and the light of Christ that filters through our lives- we literally see the world and even Jesus differently.

Have you ever been turned off with Jesus? If so, why? Was it the way you experienced Jesus through people who said they followed him? Was it the judgment you felt? Narrowness? A feeling that being associated with Jesus made you a less critical thinker, a self-righteous person, or someone who had to believe things you don’t believe? Listen to Pastor Rob as he dives deep into how faith changes your willingness to pray for others.

In this first Sunday in our Lenten series, Faith Changes Everything, Pastor Rob talks about how faith is determined by what you seek. If your highest need is comfort and satisfaction faith might always seem a bit illusive, or perhaps thin. But if you seek a connection to God that can weather difficult times, then you will discover a faith that changes everything.