Steve Fry Podcast

"In-Christ-Intimacy" is a new identity- your old condition was insecurity, your new condition is SECURITY. Your old condition was lost, your new condition is FOUND. Intimacy begins with security. We need to understand our union with Christ to truly grasp the security we are meant to know in our relationship with God.

Intimacy is our greatest need- a relationship where we can be vulnerable, honest, and transparent. Our 'in-Christ-intimacy' is the key to living a blessed life, staying obedient, experiencing healthy church, and engaging the mission of The Gospel with joy. Sermon by Steve Fry.

The aim of the Holy Spirit is to make us like Jesus. We need to take a good long look at God's original design and decide if we will allow the Holy Spirit to align us to that. When we give place to the life of Jesus within us we are living out our purpose!

Our life is no longer our own, we belong to Christ. Putting the past behind us we press on toward the prize which is experiencing Christ living His life through us. This fulfills our greatest longing; intimacy with God.

Prayer is the doorway to encouraging yourself, it's your escape hatch from the prison of impossibility. Prayer is the evidence you have joyously abandoned your life to Christ. God wants us to know how to persevere with Him, so that we can persevere through every hardship and we do this by bringing everything to Him in prayer.

Christ's body is an ecosystem of Jesus followers who function as a community together. Being in the Body of Christ is why love is a starting point, not just a character goal. Being the body of Jesus is our core mission.

As a new creation in Christ, we have a new heart. That new heart operates from an environment of love - Jesus in us! Love is your new condition; you don't work at it, but instead receive it. Rather than seeing loving others as an outcome of our efforts, see love as our permanent starting point, our source. Love in this sense is not a discipline, it is freedom from self - it's all from our source - Jesus, and that sets us free to experience joy in loving others!

We gather together to be renewed in Christ's love, we experience that love together in community, and this results in a joy that frees us to reach out to people far from God and invite them in. Mission is meant to flow from the joy of loving one another. John 13:35- "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." Sermon by Steve Fry.

One of life's biggest challenges is dealing with people. especially when they have attitudes and behaviors that are irritating and obnoxious. But Jesus gives us a model of how to handle relationships when they are difficult. Knowing how to yield to the Spirit when faced with "people stuff" is one of the most practical ways we experience the Holy Spirit's power.

One of the most truly revolutionary principles for a fulfilling spiritual life is learning the freedom of daily yielding to the Holy Spirit. One key way we yield is to sow to the Spirit as Paul taught in Galatians 6:8. When we discover how to sow to the Spirit, we will actually live in genuine victory as Christ's disciples.